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 82, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 29 Leg.] YEAS--82 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Burr Cantwell Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Cornyn Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lee Levin Lugar Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--16 Akaka Brown (OH) Cardin Carper Coburn Corker DeMint Harkin Johnson (WI) Kyl Lieberman McCain Mikulski Moran Paul Toomey NOT VOTING--2 Kirk Thune The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to.
