The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bennet). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 46, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 6 Leg.] YEAS--46 Akaka Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Durbin Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Johnson (SD) Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Reed Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--49 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee Levin Lugar McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Pryor Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Feinstein Hutchison Inouye Kerry McCain The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 46 and the nays are 49. Two-thirds of those voting for adoption not having voted in the affirmative, the resolution, as amended, is rejected.
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