The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), 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 28, nays 67, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 105 Leg.] YEAS--28 Akaka Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Cardin Conrad Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Inouye Johnson (SD) Klobuchar Kohl Levin McCain Merkley Pryor Reed Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Webb Whitehouse NAYS--67 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Cantwell Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kerry Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lee Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sessions Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Warner Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Blumenthal Crapo Hutchison Kirk Mikulski The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 2108
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