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On the recordOctober 20, 2011
I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Webb) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Shaheen). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 58, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 181 Leg.] YEAS--58 Akaka Alexander Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Casey Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--41 Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Carper Chambliss Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--1 Webb The amendment (No. 869) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 20, 2011

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