On the recordMarch 8, 2012
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 76, nays 22, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 32 Leg.] YEAS--76 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Cornyn Crapo Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--22 Barrasso Burr Coats Coburn Corker DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Paul Risch Rubio Toomey NOT VOTING--2 Kirk Thune The PRESIDING OFFICER: Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to.
