The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 74, nays 22, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 48 Leg.] YEAS--74 Akaka Alexander Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--22 Ayotte Barrasso Burr Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn DeMint Enzi Graham Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Paul Portman Risch Rubio Toomey NOT VOTING--4 Crapo Hatch Kirk Lautenberg The bill (S. 1813) was passed. (The bill will be printed in a future edition of the Record.)
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