The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``yea.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 71, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 110 Leg.] YEAS--71 Akaka Alexander Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Cornyn Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--26 Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Chambliss Coats Coburn Corker Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain Moran Paul Portman Risch Rubio Sessions Shelby Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--3 Burr Hatch Roberts The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 71, the nays are 26. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The majority leader is recognized.
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