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On the recordSeptember 15, 2011
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio) would have voted ``yes.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Udall of Colorado). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 36, nays 61, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 137 Leg.] YEAS--36 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--61 Akaka Alexander Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Kohl Landrieu Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 36, the nays are 61. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes, the amendment is rejected. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table.
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Jon Kyl
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