On the recordDecember 31, 2012
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 89, nays 8, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 251 Leg.] YEAS--89 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--8 Bennet Carper Grassley Harkin Lee Paul Rubio Shelby NOT VOTING--3 DeMint Kirk Lautenberg The PRESIDENT pro tempore. A 60-vote threshold having been achieved, the bill, as amended, is passed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Manchin). The majority leader.
