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On the recordNovember 13, 2012
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bennet). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 92, nays 5, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 201 Leg.] YEAS--92 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lee Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--5 Boxer Coburn DeMint Paul Sessions NOT VOTING--3 Begich Kirk Reed The motion was agreed to. Vote Explanation <bullet> Mr. REED. Mr. President, I was necessarily absent for this vote due to a flight delay caused by mechanical problems. Had I been present, I would have voted no.<bullet> The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. ____________________
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