On the recordDecember 28, 2012
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) and 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 73, nays 23, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 236 Leg.] YEAS--73 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Mikulski Moran Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Thune Toomey Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--23 Akaka Baucus Begich Bingaman Brown (OH) Cantwell Coons Durbin Franken Harkin Leahy Lee Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murray Paul Sanders Schatz Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Boxer DeMint Kirk Lautenberg The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for passage of the bill, the bill (H.R. 5949) is passed.
