On the recordDecember 28, 2012
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Blumenthal). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 246 Leg.] YEAS--55 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hoeven Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Boxer DeMint Kirk Lautenberg Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 55, the nays are 40. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The point of order is sustained, and the emergency designations are removed. The Senator from Oregon. Amendment No. 3367, as Further Modified, Withdrawn
