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On the recordApril 26, 2012
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Franken). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 87 Leg.] YEAS--68 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Collins Conrad Coons Corker Crapo Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--31 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Cornyn DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lugar McConnell Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The bill (S. 1925), as amended, was passed. (The bill will be printed in a future edition of the Record.)
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