The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Florida (Mr. LeMieux) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Udall of Colorado). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 63, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 189 Leg.] YEAS--63 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--33 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Bond Brownback Bunning Chambliss Coburn Cochran Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl Lugar McCain McConnell Nelson (NE) Risch Sessions Shelby Thune Voinovich Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Boxer Byrd LeMieux Roberts The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 63, the nays are 33. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to. The Senator from Iowa is recognized.
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