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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 18, nays 81, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 69 Leg.] YEAS--18 Barrasso Coburn Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Flake Inhofe Johnson (WI) Lee McConnell Moran Paul Risch Scott Sessions Shelby Vitter NAYS--81 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Lautenberg The amendment (No. 263) was rejected.
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