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On the recordMay 24, 2006
on Rollcall No. 197, the Markey Amendment to HR 5427, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' Amendment Offered by Ms. DeLauro The Acting CHAIRMAN (Mr. McHugh). The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro) 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 217, noes 204, not voting 11, as follows: [Roll No. 198] AYES--217 Abercrombie Ackerman Aderholt Allen Andrews Baca Baird Baldwin Barrow Bartlett (MD) Bass Bean Beauprez Becerra Berkley Berman Berry Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Boren Boswell Boucher Bradley (NH) Brady (PA) Brown (OH) Brown, Corrine Butterfield Camp (MI) Capps Capuano Cardin Cardoza Carnahan Carson Case Chandler Clay Cleaver Clyburn Conyers Cooper Costa Costello Crowley Cubin Cuellar Cummings Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (FL) Davis (IL) Davis (KY) Davis (TN) DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Dent Dicks Dingell Doggett Doyle Edwards Emanuel Engel Eshoo Etheridge Farr Fattah Filner Ford Fortenberry Frank (MA) Gibbons Gilchrest Gonzalez Gordon Green (WI) Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Gutierrez Harma…
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