The Congressional Record entry for the Schiavo resolution passage is finally up. Go
here, then click on item #7, then click on "printer friendly display" (have to do that because Thomas only assigns templinks for pages!).
The record only shows that Martinez (as acting President pro tempore), Frist, Levin, Warner, and Byrd were present. Martinez, because he was installed as President pro tem, and the others because they actually spoke. Other Senators might have been there, but if they didn't speak, we can't tell from the CR because there was no roll call or recorded vote.
Nor did much in the way of a debate take place.
Levin engaged in a colloquy with Frist to confirm that the proposed law did not interfere with judicial discretion in ordering any stay, i.e. did not require the judge to order the reinstallation of the feeding tube. On Frist's assurances, Levin stated that he would not raise an objection.
Warner, admirably, stood up to oppose the law on Constitutional grounds, and because of the threat to the integrity of the Senate due to the precedent the measure would set for Congress to be petitioned over any State court judgement that somebody disagreed with.
Byrd, oddly, spoke not a word about the Schiavo law, and instead, exhaustively rebutted claims that several past actions on his part supported the GOP's proposed use of the nuclear option. There was no [insert] around his remarks to indicate they were added to the record; presumably that means he delivered that speech from the floor, when he could have, instead, thundered on for an hour about the Constitutional deficiencies of the Schiavo law and the overweening hubris of the GOP in pushing it. Odd, indeed.
Immediately after Byrd's remarks, the law was passed on an unrecorded voice vote.
This is still very curious. Was the session broadcast on C-SPAN? Were any reporters present? Who was there, and what happened?