SPRINGFIELD - Calls supporting the $700 billion economic bailout plan seemed to increase in at least some Illinois congressmen's offices after the plan was voted down Monday.

U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood, a Peoria Republican, said that before the vote, most of the constituents calling his office opposed the bailout plan. But after Monday stock market plunge and his further explanation of his vote for the proposal, callers were split.

"They get it," LaHood said Tuesday. "They know we can't let the financial infrastructure of the country go down the tubes."

A spokesman for U.S. Rep. John Shimkus, a Collinsville Republican, said calls supporting the bailout picked up after the vote, perhaps because supporters didn't feel the need to be heard in advance. Shimkus voted "no."

"The presumption was it would pass," Shimkus spokesman Steve Tomaszewski said.

Federal lawmakers may return to Washington, D.C., on Thursday for another crack at the plan, which could be altered before the next vote.

U.S. Rep. Phil Hare, a Democrat from Rock Island, said he got calls from people upset the measure failed.

"I don't blame people for being angry," Hare said. "They have every right to be."

U.S. Rep. Jerry Weller, a Republican from Morris, was the only member of the U.S. House to miss Monday's vote.

"The congressman had a family matter to tend to, which kept him away from yesterday's vote," Weller spokesman Andy Fuller said. "He will be present for the next vote on the rescue plan."

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said he supported the bailout plan, though the Senate didn't vote Monday.

In an editorial board interview with the Southern Illinoisan on Tuesday in Carbondale, Durbin said the bailout as proposed might not be the best possible idea, but he said he would work to push the plan in the Senate if the House approves it.

"Doing nothing is unacceptable," he said.

Caleb Hale contributed to this report.