The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Udall of New Mexico). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 30, nays 69, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 142 Leg.] YEAS--30 Alexander Ayotte Burr Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Graham Grassley Hatch Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain McCaskill McConnell Paul Portman Risch Rubio Sessions Shelby Tester Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--69 Akaka Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The amendment (No. 2289) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma. Amendment No. 2293
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