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On the recordOctober 18, 2011
I announce that the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Conrad) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Casey). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 44, nays 55, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 168 Leg.] YEAS--44 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--55 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Conrad The amendment (No. 740) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Wisconsin.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 18, 2011

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