The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. McCaskill). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 81, nays 14, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 205 Leg.] YEAS--81 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Hoeven Isakson Johnson (SD) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--14 Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Heller Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee Paul Risch Rubio Vitter NOT VOTING--5 Hutchison Inouye McCain Nelson (FL) Sessions The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 81, the nays are 14. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The Senator from Ohio.
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