On the recordMarch 8, 2012
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 31 Leg.] YEAS--52 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Klobuchar Kyl Lee Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--46 Akaka Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Kirk Thune The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Shaheen). Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 1822 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there is now 2 minutes of debate, equally divided, prior to a vote in relation to the Nelson-Shelby-Landrieu amendment No. 1822. The Senator from Florida.
