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On the recordMay 22, 2013
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 36, nays 60, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 132 Leg.] YEAS--36 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Risch Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--60 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCaskill Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Lautenberg Menendez Murray Rockefeller The amendment (No. 960) was rejected.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 22, 2013

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