On the recordMarch 8, 2012
The following Senators are necessarily absent: The Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sanders). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 44, nays 54, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 28 Leg.] YEAS -- 44 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Landrieu Lee Lugar Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Toomey Vitter Webb Wicker NAYS -- 54 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING -- 2 Kirk Thune The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maine. Change of Vote
