The following Senator is necessarily absent: 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 33, nays 66, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 135 Leg.] YEAS--33 Akaka Begich Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Casey Coons Feinstein Gillibrand Heller Kerry Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Udall (NM) Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--66 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Bennet Bingaman Blunt Boozman Burr Carper Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Durbin Enzi Franken Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lee Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Vitter Warner Webb Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The amendment (No. 2156), as modified, was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
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