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Rand Paul: I object. I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient…

On the recordDecember 1, 2011
I object. I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The question is on agreeing to the amendment. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 41, nays 59, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 217 Leg.] YEAS--41 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Lieberman Lugar Manchin McConnell Moran Murkowski Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--59 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Corker Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heller Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lee Levin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden The amendment (No. 1274) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader is recognized. The 9,000th Vote of Senator Frank Lautenberg
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Rand Paul
Republican · Kentucky
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Dec 1, 2011

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