The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 87, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 49 Leg.] YEAS--87 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lee Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Pryor Reed Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--12 Akaka Durbin Harkin Inouye Lautenberg Leahy Levin Mikulski Murray Reid Sanders Schumer NOT VOTING--1 Risch The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for passage, the bill is passed. The Senator from Colorado is recognized. ____________________
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