On the recordMarch 8, 2012
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 30 Leg.] YEAS--52 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lee Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Stabenow Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--46 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Kirk Thune The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected.
