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On the recordMarch 5, 2013
I announce that the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Laugenberg),and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Udall) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 44, nays 53, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 29 Leg.] YEAS--44 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Bennet Boozman Boxer Burr Coats Coburn Collins Coons Corker Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Hagan Heller Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Landrieu Lee McCain McCaskill Merkley Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Pryor Risch Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Thune Toomey Udall (NM) Vitter NAYS--53 Baldwin Blumenthal Blunt Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Cornyn Cowan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin McConnell Menendez Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Stabenow Tester Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Begich Lautenberg Udall (CO) The amendment (No. 25) was rejected.
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Dick Durbin
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