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On the recordOctober 20, 2011
I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Webb) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 73, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 185 Leg.] YEAS--73 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Feinstein Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kyl Landrieu Lee Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Schumer Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Wicker Wyden NAYS--26 Akaka Baucus Cantwell Conrad Durbin Franken Gillibrand Inouye Johnson (SD) Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Levin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Shaheen Stabenow Tester Whitehouse NOT VOTING--1 Webb The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 73 and the nays are 26. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to. Amendment No. 753
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 20, 2011

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