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On the recordNovember 10, 2011
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sanders). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 40, nays 56, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 202 Leg.] YEAS--40 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lugar McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--56 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman 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 ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1 Lee NOT VOTING--3 Inouye McCain Sessions The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 40, the nays are 56. One Senator responded ``present.'' Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 927, As Modified The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will now be 2 minutes of debate equally divided. The Senator from Montana.
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Jon Kyl
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