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Jon Kyl: The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Casey).…

On the recordJune 19, 2012
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Casey). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 73, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 130 Leg.] YEAS--73 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Collins Conrad Coons Corker Crapo Durbin Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Heller Hutchison Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--26 Barrasso Boxer Brown (MA) Burr Coburn Cochran Cornyn DeMint Enzi Feinstein Graham Hatch Hoeven Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The amendment (No. 2238) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Kentucky. Amendment No. 2181
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Jon Kyl
Republican · Arizona
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Jun 19, 2012

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