The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) and 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 35, nays 60, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 240 Leg.] YEAS--35 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Carper Chambliss Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Grassley Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Thune Toomey NAYS--60 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Casey Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Boxer DeMint Kirk Lautenberg Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes on adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Vote on Amendment No. 3371 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question is on agreeing to the Coburn and McCain amendment No. 3371.
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