On the recordSeptember 21, 2011
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi) and the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 43, nays 54, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 145 Leg.] YEAS--43 Alexander Ayotte Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee Lieberman Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--54 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Manchin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Barrasso Enzi Rockefeller The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 43, the nays are 54. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I ask the majority leader--I need about 2 minutes for the chairman and I to have a colloquy.
