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On the recordDecember 4, 2012
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 61, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 219 Ex.] YEAS--61 Akaka Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain 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 NAYS--38 Alexander Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 61, the nays are 38. Two-thirds of the Senators present not having voted in the affirmative, the resolution of ratification is not agreed to. The majority leader.
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