INDIANAPOLIS -- Sen. Dick Lugar has cast his 12,000th vote, moving him to 13th place on the all-time Senate voting list. Lugar, the longest serving U.S. senator in Indiana history, cast the vote Wednesday during debate on a public lands bill.
The six-term senator voted against a motion to table an amendment, which was defeated 63-35.
The vote moved the Senate's most senior Republican past the late Sen. Quentin Burdick.
Lugar has perfect voting attendance for 2009 and has maintained a better than 98 percent attendance record during his more than 32 years in the Senate.
Active senators who have cast more than 12,000 votes include all-time record holder Robert C. Byrd with more than 18,000 votes, Daniel Inouye, Edward Kennedy, and Patrick Leahy.
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