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Sent 1: (CNN) -- Deposed Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya will not be reinstated as head of state, an overwhelming majority of the Honduran congress voted Wednesday.
Sent 2: In an hours-long process, 111 lawmakers voted in favor of a motion not to return Zelaya to office.
Sent 3: A majority of 65 votes in the 128-member body was required to reject his reinstatement.
Sent 4: Zelaya was removed from office in a military-led coup on June 28 and replaced by congressional leader Roberto Micheletti.
Sent 5: On Wednesday, lawmakers voted one by one and addressed the chamber as they cast their vote, making for a slow process.
Sent 6: The vote was a key part of a U.S.-brokered pact that representatives for Zelaya and Micheletti signed October 29, giving Congress the power to decide Zelaya's fate.
Sent 7: The United States expressed disappointment Thursday over the latest rebuff to its diplomatic efforts to end the political crisis in Honduras.
Sent 8: U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela continued to call on the Honduran government to allow Zelaya's return and to create a unity government in the interim period before the new president takes office next month.
Sent 9: "We are disappointed by this decision since the United States had hoped the [Honduran] Congress would have approved his return," Valenzuela said in a conference call with journalists in Washington.
Sent 10: "Our policy since June 28 has been consistently principled.
Sent 11: It has condemned the coup d'etat and continued to accept President Zelaya as the democratically elected and legitimate leader of Honduras throughout this political crisis."
Sent 12: The United States continues to call for Honduras to engage in national reconciliation and creation of a truth commission to investigate the crisis, in addition to the unity government.
Sent 13: "The absence of democratic, constitutional order is the unacceptable status quo," a senior U.S. administration official said on the conference call, remaining anonymous under the ground rules of the call and because of the sensitivity of the situation.
Sent 14: "The election is a step toward a day where Honduras will have an electorally legitimate government in place."