On the recordDecember 28, 2012
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) and 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 40, nays 55, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 241 Leg.] YEAS--40 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Carper Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Graham Grassley Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McCaskill Paul Portman Risch Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Webb Wicker NAYS--55 Akaka Ayotte Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Casey Collins Conrad Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Heller Hoeven Johnson (SD) Kerry Landrieu Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Boxer DeMint Kirk Lautenberg Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The Senator from Maryland.
