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On the recordDecember 8, 2011
I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) and the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Kohl) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 22, nays 76, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 225 Leg.] YEAS--22 Ayotte Barrasso Brown (MA) Cochran Collins Crapo Enzi Grassley Heller Hoeven Hutchison Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Rubio Snowe Vitter Wicker NAYS--76 Akaka Alexander Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn DeMint Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kirk Klobuchar Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lee Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Kerry Kohl The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 22 and the nays are 76. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this motion, the motion is rejected. Vote Explanation <bullet> Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, I was necessarily absent for the votes on the motion to proceed to the Casey Middle Class Tax Cut Act of 2011, S.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 8, 2011

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