The voter id bill was voted on 17 times. On Monday April 23,2007 the voter id bill was voted on sixteen times. All sixteen times it went to a vote. Aaron Pena was absent. So it says on the house journal.
Monday, April 23, 2007 Absent, Excused—Flores; Moreno; Pena.
Look who was there for row call on the morning of Monday April 23,2007.
SIXTIETH DAY—MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2007
The house met at 10 a.m. and was called to order by the speaker.
The roll of the house was called and a quorum was announced present
Present — Mr. Speaker; Allen; Alonzo; Anchia; Anderson; Aycock; Bailey;
Berman; Bohac; Bolton; Bonnen; Branch; Brown, B.; Brown, F.; Burnam;
Callegari; Castro; Chavez; Chisum; Christian; Cohen; Coleman; Cook, B.; Cook,
R.; Corte; Crabb; Creighton; Crownover; Darby; Davis, J.; Davis, Y.; Delisi;
Deshotel; Driver; Dukes; Dunnam; Dutton; Eiland; Eissler; Elkins; England;
Escobar; Farabee; Farias; Farrar; Flores; Flynn; Frost; Gallego; Garcia; Gattis;
Geren; Giddings; Gonzales; Gonzalez Toureilles; Goolsby; Guillen; Haggerty;
Hamilton; Hancock; Hardcastle; Harless; Harper-Brown; Hartnett; Heflin;
Hernandez; Herrero; Hilderbran; Hill; Hochberg; Hodge; Homer; Hopson;
Howard, C.; Howard, D.; Hughes; Isett; Jackson; Jones; Keffer; King, P.; King,
T.; Kolkhorst; Krusee; Kuempel; Latham; Laubenberg; Leibowitz; Lucio;
Macias; Madden; Mallory Caraway; Martinez; Martinez Fischer; McCall;
McClendon; McReynolds; Menendez; Merritt; Miles; Miller; Morrison; Mowery;
Murphy; Naishtat; Noriega; O D’ ay; Oliveira; Olivo; Orr; Ortiz; Otto; Parker;
Patrick; Paxton; Pena; Phillips; Pickett; Pierson; Pitts; Puente; Quintanilla;
Raymond; Riddle; Ritter; Rodriguez; Rose; Smith, T.; Smith, W.; Smithee;
Solomons; Strama; Straus; Swinford; Talton; Taylor; Thompson; Truitt; Turner;
Van Arsdale; Vaught; Veasey; Villarreal; Vo; West; Woolley; Zedler; Zerwas.
Absent, Excused—King, S.; Moreno.
It seems that Aaron Pena was there all along.
The next question should be. Why did he fail to cast a vote 16 times on the voter id bill?
