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On the recordMarch 13, 2012
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 12, nays 86, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 45 Leg.] YEAS--12 Ayotte Carper Coats Coons Crapo Kyl Lieberman McCain Murkowski Portman Risch Toomey NAYS--86 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn DeMint Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lee Levin Lugar Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Hatch Kirk The amendment (No. 1742) was rejected. Amendment No. 1830
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Jon Kyl
Republican · Arizona
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Mar 13, 2012

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