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On the recordJuly 31, 2011
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 122 Leg.] YEAS--50 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Rockefeller Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--49 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee Lugar Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Paul Portman Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Sanders Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Inhofe The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 50 and the nays are 49. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. The majority leader.
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Jon Kyl
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