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On the recordApril 24, 2012
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 30, nays 69, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 70 Leg.] YEAS--30 Alexander Blunt Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cornyn Crapo DeMint Graham Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Paul Portman Risch Rubio Sessions Shelby Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--69 Akaka Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The Senator from Oregon. Amendment No. 2020, as Modified
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Jon Kyl
Republican · Arizona
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Apr 24, 2012

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