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On the recordMarch 22, 2013
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 25, nays 74, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 85 Leg.] YEAS--25 Barrasso Burr Coburn Collins Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Heller Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter NAYS--74 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Coons Corker Cornyn Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Lautenberg The amendment (No. 471) was rejected. Amendment No. 702 The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is 2 minutes equally divided prior to the vote on amendment No. 702 offered by Mr. Cruz. The Senator from Texas.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 22, 2013

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