The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 14, nays 84, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 136 Leg.] YEAS--14 Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Corker Crapo DeMint Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain Paul Risch Toomey NAYS--84 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Cornyn Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Kohl Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 14, the nays are 84. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. Vote on Amendment No. 622 Under the previous order, the question is on agreeing to amendment No. 622, offered by the Senator from Kentucky, Mr. Paul.
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