The 60-39 vote on a cold winter morning capped months of arduous negotiations and 24 days of floor debate. It also followed a succession of failures by past congresses to get to this point. Biden presided as 58 Democrats and two independents voted "yes."
No Republicans voted for the bill. Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., did not vote due to what his office called "family commitments."
During the vote, an exhausted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., initially cast a "no" vote by mistake, but then quickly corrected himself as fellow senators burst out laughing.
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Monday, March 22, 2010
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