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 20, nays 79, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 138 Leg.] YEAS--20 Ayotte Brown (MA) Burr Coats Coburn Cornyn DeMint Graham Hatch Heller Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain McConnell Murkowski Paul Rubio Sessions Toomey NAYS--79 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The amendment (No. 2276) was rejected.
On the recordJune 19, 2012
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