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Mike Levin: Could I just interrupt with a unanimous consent request that prior to each vote there be 2 minutes of debate equally…

On the recordDecember 1, 2011
Could I just interrupt with a unanimous consent request that prior to each vote there be 2 minutes of debate equally divided in the usual form and that it start with the vote after this one. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. Mr. McCAIN. I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 1126. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 45, nays 55, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 214 Leg.] YEAS--45 Akaka Baucus Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Johnson (SD) Kerry Kirk Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Lee McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murray Nelson (FL) Paul Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Wyden NAYS--55 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Begich Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Klobuchar Kyl Landrieu Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Portman Pryor Reed Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Stabenow Thune Toomey Vitter Whitehouse Wicker The amendment (No. 1126) was rejected.
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California
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Dec 1, 2011

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