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 (Mrs. Hagan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 43, nays 52, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 235 Leg.] YEAS--43 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Durbin Franken Gillibrand Grassley Harkin Heller Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Lee Levin Manchin Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Paul Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Shaheen Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Webb Wyden NAYS--52 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Feinstein Graham Hagan Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Kohl Kyl Lieberman Lugar McCain McConnell Mikulski Moran Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Schumer Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Warner Whitehouse Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Boxer DeMint Kirk Lautenberg McCaskill The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The bill (H.R. 5949) was ordered to a third reading and was read the third time.
