The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Manchin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 84, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 40 Leg.] YEAS--84 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--12 Ayotte Cornyn DeMint Ensign Johnson (WI) Lee Paul Rubio Sessions Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Chambliss Crapo Harkin Risch The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 84, the nays are 12. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The majority leader. ____________________
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