Senate Roll Call Vote #00055

On the Amendment S.Amdt. 3133: Conrad Amdt No. 3133; To increase funding to combat avian flu, increase local preparedness, and create a Manhattan Project-like effort to develop a vaccine to inoculate the U.S. Population against a pandemic by $5 billion in FY 2007 paid for by requiring tax withholding on government payments to contractors like Halliburton.
Result: Rejected (44-55, 1 member not voting, 1/2 threshold)
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