The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bennet). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 76, nays 23, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 133 Leg.] YEAS--76 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Cornyn Crapo Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hutchison Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--23 Barrasso Coats Coburn Corker DeMint Enzi Graham Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain McConnell Paul Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The amendment (No. 2309) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Pennsylvania. Amendment No. 2217
Jon Kyl: “The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bennet).…”
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