The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 78, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 28 Leg.] YEAS--78 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Byrd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Ensign Enzi Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Leahy LeMieux Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Voinovich Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--18 Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Grassley Gregg Kyl McCain McConnell Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby NOT VOTING--4 Hutchison Inhofe Lautenberg Warner The motion was agreed to.
On the recordFebruary 25, 2010
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