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On the recordJanuary 28, 2013
I announce that the Senator from Maine (Mr. King), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 35, nays 62, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 3 Leg.] YEAS--35 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Heller Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Thune Toomey Vitter NAYS--62 Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Inhofe Johnson (SD) Kaine Kerry Klobuchar Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--3 King Murray Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The bill was ordered to a third reading and was read the third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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