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On the recordApril 5, 2011
I move to table that and ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The yeas and nays are ordered. The question is on agreeing to the motion. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 90, nays 10, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 50 Leg.] YEAS--90 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--10 Collins DeMint Ensign Johnson (WI) Lee Moran Paul Sessions Snowe Toomey The motion was agreed to. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote, and I move to lay that motion on the table. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana. ____________________
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada
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Apr 5, 2011

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