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On the recordMarch 22, 2013
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 51, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 64 Leg.] YEAS--48 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Pryor Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--51 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Collins Coons Cowan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Lautenberg The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 48, the nays are 51. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The point of order is sustained and the amendment falls.
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Dick Durbin
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