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On the recordFebruary 2, 2012
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Manchin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 26, nays 73, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 9 Leg.] YEAS--26 Alexander Begich Blunt Boxer Brown (MA) Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Corker Graham Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Kohl Kyl Murkowski Nelson (FL) Portman Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Stabenow Thune Wicker NAYS--73 Akaka Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boozman Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Coats Coburn Conrad Coons Cornyn Crapo DeMint Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heller Hoeven Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lee Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murray Nelson (NE) Paul Pryor Reed Reid Risch Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Shaheen Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse 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. The Senator from Massachusetts.
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Jon Kyl
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