UPDATE: The U.S. House just voted down the King Amendment by voice vote. Congressman King immediately moved to have the vote be recorded by roll call, but the Rule on the bill didn't allow for roll call votes -- so we'll never know how Murtha voted.
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"UPDATE: The U.S. House just voted down the King Amendment by voice vote. Congressman King immediately moved to have the vote be recorded by roll call, but the Rule on the bill didn't allow for roll call votes -- so we'll never know how Murtha voted."
Actually, they did have a recorded vote, and Murtha voted AGAINST Congressman King's very commonsensical amendment:
"The amendment that would have extended the act for a decade, rather than the 25 years in the bill, was rejected 288-134. The proposal to strike requirements in the law that ballots in districts with large populations of non-English speakers be printed in other languages failed 238-185."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/13/AR2006071300369.html Rollcall vote for amendment to eliminate bilingual-ballots requirement:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll372.xml