On the recordMay 24, 2012
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Coons). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 34, nays 62, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 112 Leg.] YEAS--34 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Cornyn Crapo Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Isakson Johanns Kyl Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NAYS--62 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coburn Conrad Coons Corker DeMint Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inhofe Inouye Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lee Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1 Snowe NOT VOTING--3 Blumenthal Hutchison Kirk The amendment was rejected.
