On the recordDecember 21, 2012
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Brown), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Franken). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 14, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 229 Leg.] YEAS--81 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hagan Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--14 Barrasso Crapo Durbin Enzi Franken Grassley Harkin Leahy Lee Merkley Paul Risch Sanders Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Brown (MA) DeMint Kirk Moran The conference report was agreed to.
