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On the recordJune 20, 2012
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 63, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 143 Leg.] YEAS--63 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Bingaman Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kerry Kyl Landrieu Lee Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Stabenow Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker Wyden NAYS--36 Akaka Baucus Begich Blumenthal Boxer Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Klobuchar Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Sanders Schumer Shaheen Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The amendment (No. 2293) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan. Amendment No. 2453
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Jon Kyl
Republican · Arizona
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Jun 20, 2012

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