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The U.S. Senate voted 60-37 Thursday in favor of H.R. 3435, which provides an additional $2 billion in funding to the Cash for Clunkers car recycling program. Sens Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., were absent. The House previously approved the program.
Yeas
Robert Casey, D-Pa.; Arlen Specter, D-Pa.
In a 68-31 vote Thursday, the Senate also confirmed Sonia Sotomayor as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., was absent.
Yeas
Robert Casey, D-Pa.; Arlen Specter, D-Pa.
HOUSE
The state House voted 194-4 last week in favor of Senate Bill 850, a bill enacted first by Senate Republicans, which creates a $27.1 billion state budget, most of which Gov. Ed Rendell has said he will veto. But he will sign the parts of the bill that allow 77,000 state workers to be paid for work they've done since the fiscal year started July 1.
Yeas
Republicans -- Jim Christiana of Beaver; Brian Ellis of Butler; Tim Krieger of Delmont; John Maher of Upper St. Clair; Jim Marshall of Big Beaver; Mark Mustio of Moon; Jeff Pyle of Ford City; Mike Reese of Mount Pleasant; Dick Stevenson of Grove City; Mike Turzai of Bradford Woods; Randy Vulakovich of Shaler.
Absent -- Daryl Metcalfe, R-Cranberry, and Joseph Petrarca, D-Vandergrift.
Democrats -- James Casorio of Irwin; Dom Costa of Stanton Heights; Paul Costa of Wilkins; Peter Daley of California; Dan Deasy of Westwood; Tony DeLuca of Penn Hills; Frank Dermody of Oakmont; Bill DeWeese of Waynesburg; Dan Frankel of Squirrel Hill; Marc Gergely of White Oak; Jaret Gibbons of Ellwood City; Ted Harhai of Monessen; Bill Kortz of Dravosburg; Nick Kotik of Robinson; Deberah Kula of North Union; David Levdansky of Forward; Tim Mahoney of South Union; Joe Markosek of Monroeville; Robert Matzie of Ambridge; John Pallone of New Kensington; Joe Preston of East Liberty; Harry Readshaw of Carrick; Matt Smith of Mt. Lebanon; Tim Solobay of Canonsburg; Chelsa Wagner of Beechview; Don Walko of North Side; Jake Wheatley of Hill District; Jesse White of Cecil.
SENATE
No votes last week.
