The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Bennett). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 41, nays 57, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 52 Leg.] YEAS--41 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Begich Bond Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl Landrieu LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Voinovich Wicker NAYS--57 Akaka Baucus Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coburn Collins Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Gregg Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Bennett Byrd The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 41, the nays are 57. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. The point of order is sustained and the amendment falls. The Senator from Washington.
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