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On the recordMay 24, 2006
on rollcall No. 199, the Andrews Amendment to H.R. 5427, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' Amendment Offered by Ms. Berkley The Acting CHAIRMAN (Mr. McHugh). The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. Berkley) 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 147, noes 271, not voting 14, as follows: [Roll No. 200] AYES--147 Abercrombie Ackerman Andrews Baca Baird Baldwin Barrow Bean Becerra Berkley Berman Bishop (NY) Bishop (UT) Blumenauer Boren Boyd Brown, Corrine Butterfield Capps Capuano Cardoza Carnahan Carson Chandler Chocola Cleaver Conyers Crowley Cummings Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (IL) Davis (TN) DeFazio DeGette DeLauro Dingell Doggett Emanuel Engel Eshoo Farr Filner Flake Frank (MA) Gibbons Gonzalez Green, Al Grijalva Harman Hart Hastings (FL) Higgins Hinchey Holt Honda Hooley Hoyer Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson-Lee (TX) Jefferson Jindal Johnson, E. B.…
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