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On the recordJune 29, 2012
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 171 Leg.] YEAS--63 Akaka Baucus Begich Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--30 Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Hutchison Isakson Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Thune Toomey ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1 Snowe NOT VOTING--6 Alexander Bennet Coburn Inouye Kirk Udall (CO) The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 63, the nays are 30. One Senator responded ``present.'' Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to and the point of order falls. Abandoned Mine Land Trust Fund
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Jon Kyl
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