On the recordApril 25, 2012
The following Senator is necessarily absent: 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 23, nays 76, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 79 Leg.] YEAS--23 Barrasso Burr Chambliss Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Hatch Heller Inhofe Kyl Lee McCain McConnell Paul Risch Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter NAYS--76 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected.
