On the recordApril 24, 2012
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 43, nays 56, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 72 Leg.] YEAS--43 Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Casey Coons Durbin Franken Gillibrand Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Levin Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--56 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bingaman Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Carper Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Feinstein Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Landrieu Lee Lieberman Lugar McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Warner Webb Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Kirk The amendment (No. 2043), as modified, was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The Senator from Connecticut.
