Research help: Where was McCain?

[Mugsy]

Hopefully, someone can give me a quicky answer.

I noticed that during Saturday Night's Senate final health care vote, the final vote was 60 to 39. McCain didn't vote. Why not? He's been a vocal opponent of the bill, threatening Harry Reid that he'd fight the bill all the way. So what happened? After much Googling, I can find nothing about his abstention, and McCain's homepage says even less.

I'm working on my latest blog report.

[NWHarkness]

1. McCain voted. Voinovich did not.

[Mugsy]

3. Link

Better recheck my link above.

Voinovich voted Nay. McCain "Did not vote".

[HughMoran]

4. Link appears to be for a different bill

I can't find the vote for the healthcare bill.

[tblue]

5. Voinovich - Who wept as he voted to allow that mustached idiot Bolton to go to the UN?

He's a closet liberal but wholly owned by his party. Anyway, McCain? Meh. I have zero expectations of that dude.

[HughMoran]

2. Don't know, though it was initially stated the Voinovich didn't vote

Weird either way - I wonder why...

[annabanana]

6. Voinovich was already on his way home... McCain voted no.. . n/t

[spanone]

7. here's the roll call, voinovich did not vote.

Akaka (D-HI), Yea
Alexander (R-TN), Nay
Barrasso (R-WY), Nay
Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Begich (D-AK), Yea
Bennet (D-CO), Yea
Bennett (R-UT), Nay
Bingaman (D-NM), Yea
Bond (R-MO), Nay
Boxer (D-CA), Yea
Brown (D-OH), Yea
Brownback (R-KS), Nay
Bunning (R-KY), Nay
Burr (R-NC), Nay
Burris (D-IL), Yea
Byrd (D-WV), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Cardin (D-MD), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Casey (D-PA), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Nay
Coburn (R-OK), Nay
Cochran (R-MS), Nay
Collins (R-ME), Nay
Conrad (D-ND), Yea
Corker (R-TN), Nay
Cornyn (R-TX), Nay
Crapo (R-ID), Nay
DeMint (R-SC), Nay
Dodd (D-CT), Yea
Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Ensign (R-NV), Nay
Enzi (R-WY), Nay
Feingold (D-WI), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Franken (D-MN), Yea
Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Nay
Grassley (R-IA), Nay
Gregg (R-NH), Nay
Hagan (D-NC), Yea
Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Hatch (R-UT), Nay
Hutchison (R-TX), Nay
Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Inouye (D-HI), Yea
Isakson (R-GA), Nay
Johanns (R-NE), Nay
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Kaufman (D-DE), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Kirk (D-MA), Yea
Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Kyl (R-AZ), Nay
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Yea
LeMieux (R-FL), Nay
Levin (D-MI), Yea
Lieberman (ID-CT), Yea
Lincoln (D-AR), Yea
Lugar (R-IN), Nay
McCain (R-AZ), Nay
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Nay
Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
Merkley (D-OR), Yea
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Nay
Murray (D-WA), Yea
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Risch (R-ID), Nay
Roberts (R-KS), Nay
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Sanders (I-VT), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Sessions (R-AL), Nay
Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Snowe (R-ME), Nay
Specter (D-PA), Yea
Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Tester (D-MT), Yea
Thune (R-SD), Nay
Udall (D-CO), Yea
Udall (D-NM), Yea
Vitter (R-LA), Nay
Voinovich (R-OH), Not Voting
Warner (D-VA), Yea
Webb (D-VA), Yea
Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
Wicker (R-MS), Nay
Wyden (D-O
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00353

[Laf.La.Dem.]

8. I agree McCain did vote NO and Voinovich did not vote

But the site shows:

Number: H.R. 3590 (Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009 )

Measure Title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.

Does not sound like Health Care Bill???????
:silly:

[karynnj]

10. It is - I don't quite understand the reason, but it has something to do with procedure

They dig up a House bill and substitute everything there with the Senate bill. This is why it is sometimes hard to find votes on the bill - but if you watched, they even called it that.

[MiniMe]

9. The way this thing is formatted, not being there is as good as a no

They need 60 yes votes, the number of nos doesn't matter.