I announce that the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Kohl) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 62, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 135 Leg.] YEAS--62 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--37 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Kyl Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Kohl The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 62, the nays are 37. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to. The amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the joint resolution to be read a third time. The joint resolution was read the third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the joint resolution, H.J. Res.…
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