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On the recordMarch 3, 2010
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 47, nays 50, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 36 Leg.] YEAS--47 Akaka Baucus Begich Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Byrd Cantwell Cardin Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Lincoln Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (NM) Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--50 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Bennet Bennett Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Carper Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feingold Feinstein Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Inhofe Johanns Kyl Landrieu LeMieux Levin Lieberman Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Risch Roberts Sessions Shaheen Shelby Thune Udall (CO) Vitter Voinovich Warner Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Bond Hutchison Isakson The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 47, the nays are 50. 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. The emergency designation is stricken. The Senator from New Hampshire.
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Jon Kyl
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