On the recordNovember 29, 2012
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller), and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Blumenthal). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 212 Leg.] YEAS--54 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Landrieu Lee Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Stabenow Thune Toomey Vitter Webb Wicker NAYS--41 Akaka Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Levin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Reed Reid Sanders Schumer Shaheen Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse NOT VOTING--5 DeMint Heller Kirk Rockefeller Wyden The amendment (No. 3245) was agreed to.
