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 41, nays 54, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 247 Leg.] YEAS--41 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--54 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Webb 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.
