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On the recordJanuary 31, 2013
I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 9 Leg.] YEAS--79 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--19 Boozman Coats Cornyn Crapo Cruz Fischer Grassley Heller Lee Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter NOT VOTING--2 Kerry Murray The motion was agreed to. Motion to Commit With Instructions The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to the motion to commit offered by the Senator from Louisiana. The Senator from Louisiana.
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Dick Durbin
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