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 29, nays 70, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 152 Leg.] YEAS--29 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Burr Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Hatch Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--70 Akaka Alexander Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan is recognized. Amendments Nos. 2195, 2246, 2403, 2443, 2363, as Modified
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