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On the recordMay 26, 2011
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts). The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 79, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 81 Leg.] YEAS--79 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Burr Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Mikulski Moran Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Rockefeller Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Stabenow Thune Toomey Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--18 Baucus Begich Bingaman Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Heller Leahy Lee Merkley Murkowski Paul Sanders Shaheen Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Blumenthal Roberts Schumer The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 79, the nays are 18. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Cloture having been invoked, the motion to refer the House message falls.
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Jon Kyl
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