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On the recordJune 25, 2012
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kyl), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Hagan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 89, nays 3, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 166 Leg.] YEAS--89 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lee Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Schumer Sessions Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--3 Burr Paul Sanders NOT VOTING--8 Coburn Hatch Kirk Kyl Murkowski Rubio Shaheen Udall (CO) The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 89, the nays are 3.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota
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govinfo.gov
Jun 25, 2012

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