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On the recordMarch 20, 2013
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Brown). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 42 Leg.] YEAS--70 Alexander Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--29 Ayotte Barrasso Burr Coats Coburn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Heller Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Tester Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Lautenberg The amendment (No. 26), as modified, as amended, was agreed to. Cloture Motion The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 2 minutes of debate prior to a vote on the motion to invoke cloture on H.R. 933. The senior Senator from Alabama is recognized.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 20, 2013

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