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On the recordNovember 28, 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 62, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 206 Leg.] YEAS--62 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hoeven Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--37 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Hatch Heller Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Toomey Vitter Webb Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The amendment (No. 2985) was agreed to.
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Jon Kyl
Republican · Arizona
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Nov 28, 2012

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