I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) and the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Kohl) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. McCaskill). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 224 Leg.] YEAS--50 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Klobuchar Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--48 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee Lugar Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sanders Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Kerry Kohl The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 48. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this motion, the motion is rejected. The Republican leader. ____________________
On the recordDecember 8, 2011
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