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Louise Slaughter: on rollcall No. 117, had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' Amendment No. 7 Offered by Mr. Bishop of New York…

On the recordApril 20, 2005
on rollcall No. 117, had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' Amendment No. 7 Offered by Mr. Bishop of New York The Acting CHAIRMAN (Mr. Simpson). The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York (Mr. Bishop) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment. The Clerk redesignated the amendment. Recorded Vote The Acting CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded. A recorded vote was ordered. The Acting CHAIRMAN. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 170, noes 259, not voting 5, as follows: [Roll No. 118] AYES--170 Abercrombie Ackerman Allen Baca Baird Baldwin Barrow Bean Becerra Berkley Berman Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Boswell Brady (PA) Brown (OH) Brown, Corrine Butterfield Capps Capuano Cardin Carnahan Carson Case Chandler Cleaver Clyburn Conyers Cooper Crowley Cummings Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (FL) Davis (IL) DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Dicks Dingell Doggett Doyle Engel Eshoo Etheridge Evans Farr Fattah Filner Ford Frank (MA) Grijalva Gutierrez Harman Hastings (FL) Higgins Hinchey Holden Holt Honda Hooley Hoyer Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jefferson Johnson, E. B.…
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