On the recordMarch 21, 2012
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Franken). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 76, nays 22, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 53 Leg.] YEAS--76 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Begich Bennet Bingaman Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Cantwell Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn DeMint Durbin Enzi Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Lee Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Pryor Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Wicker Wyden NAYS--22 Akaka Baucus Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cardin Conrad Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Reed Sanders Webb Whitehouse NOT VOTING--2 Crapo Kirk The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 76, the nays are 22. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Cloture having been invoked, the motion to commit falls as being inconsistent with cloture.
