On the recordFebruary 2, 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 81, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 6 Leg.] YEAS--81 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--18 Barrasso Bingaman Blunt Chambliss Coburn DeMint Enzi Johnson (WI) Lee Lugar McConnell Moran Portman Sessions Shelby Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The amendment was agreed to.
