On the recordMay 15, 2012
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 78, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 96 Leg.] YEAS--78 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--20 Barrasso Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Grassley Hatch Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain McConnell Paul Risch Rubio Sanders Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--2 Kirk Rockefeller The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 60-vote threshold having been achieved, the bill is passed. The majority leader is recognized. ____________________





