The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 157 Leg.] YEAS--66 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coburn Collins Conrad Coons Corker DeMint Durbin Feinstein Franken Graham Grassley Harkin Hatch Heller Inouye Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Lautenberg Lee Levin Lieberman Manchin McCain Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--33 Barrasso Baucus Blunt Boozman Chambliss Coats Cochran Cornyn Crapo Enzi Gillibrand Hagan Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Landrieu Leahy Lugar McCaskill McConnell Moran Nelson (NE) Pryor Risch Roberts Sanders Stabenow Tester Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The amendment (No. 2439) was agreed to.
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