On the recordApril 25, 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 44, nays 54, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 80 Leg.] YEAS--44 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Casey Durbin Franken Gillibrand Harkin Heller Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Levin Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Pryor Reed Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--54 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bingaman Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Carper Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Feinstein Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Landrieu Lee Lieberman Lugar McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Warner Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Conrad Kirk The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, requiring 60 votes for the adoption of the amendment, the amendment is rejected.
