The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Udall of Colorado). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 160 Leg.] YEAS--50 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--49 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Paul Portman Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Coburn The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 50, nays are 49. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
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