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On the recordJuly 11, 2011
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Manchin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 69, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 107 Leg.] YEAS--69 Akaka Alexander Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--27 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Chambliss Coburn Cochran Crapo DeMint Enzi Grassley Hatch Heller Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Lee Lugar Moran Nelson (NE) Paul Portman Risch Roberts Shelby Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Brown (OH) Murkowski Rubio Vitter The motion was agreed to.
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Jon Kyl
Republican · Arizona
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Jul 11, 2011

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