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On the recordNovember 29, 2011
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bennet). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 30, nays 67, as follows: The result was announced--yeas 30, nays 67, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 211 Leg.] YEAS--30 Baucus Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin DeMint Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Heller Klobuchar Lautenberg Leahy Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murray Nelson (NE) Paul Rockefeller Sanders Snowe Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Wyden NAYS--67 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Kirk Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lee Levin Lieberman Lugar McCain McConnell Mikulski Moran Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Schumer Sessions Shelby Stabenow Thune Toomey Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Begich Murkowski Shaheen The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bennet). On this vote the yeas are 30; the nays are 67. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The majority leader.
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