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Bernie Sanders: on rollcall No. 342, had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' Amendment No. 16 Offered by Mrs. Musgrave The…

On the recordJune 28, 2006
on rollcall No. 342, had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' Amendment No. 16 Offered by Mrs. Musgrave The CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Colorado (Mrs. Musgrave) 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 CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded. A recorded vote was ordered. The CHAIRMAN. This will be a 2-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 230, noes 191, not voting 11, as follows: [Roll No. 343] AYES--230 Aderholt Akin Alexander Baca Bachus Baker Barrett (SC) Barrow Bartlett (MD) Barton (TX) Bass Beauprez Berry Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blunt Boehner Bonilla Bonner Bono Boozman Boren Boucher Boustany Bradley (NH) Brady (TX) Brown (SC) Brown, Corrine Brown-Waite, Ginny Burgess Burton (IN) Buyer Calvert Camp (MI) Campbell (CA) Cantor Capito Carter Chabot Chandler Chocola Coble Cole (OK) Conaway Cooper Costello Cramer Crenshaw Cubin Cuellar Culberson Davis (KY) Davis (TN) Davis, Jo Ann Deal (GA) Dent Dingell Doolittle Drake Duncan Edwards Emerson English (PA) Etheridge Everett Feeney Flake Foley Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Gallegly Garrett (NJ) Gibbons Gillmor Gingrey Gohmert Goode Goodlatte Gordon Graves Green (WI) Green, Gene Gutknecht Hall Harris…
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