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On the recordMay 16, 2012
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Whitehouse). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 16, nays 83, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 100 Leg.] YEAS--16 Barrasso Coburn Crapo DeMint Enzi Hatch Johnson (WI) Lee McConnell Moran Paul Risch Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter NAYS--83 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
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Jon Kyl
Republican · Arizona
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May 16, 2012

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