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On the recordMarch 25, 2010
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 45, nays 53, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 94 Leg.] YEAS--45 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lincoln Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Pryor Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Voinovich Webb Wicker NAYS--53 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Byrd Isakson The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 45, the nays are 53. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having not voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to, the point of order is sustained, and the amendment falls.
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Jon Kyl
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