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On the recordMay 6, 2013
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 24, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 112 Leg.] YEAS--70 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cowan Crapo Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shelby Stabenow Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--24 Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Coburn Cruz Flake Hatch Heller Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McConnell Merkley Murkowski Paul Roberts Rubio Scott Shaheen Tester Toomey Vitter Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Begich Burr Cornyn Graham Lautenberg Moran The amendment (No. 741) was agreed to. UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUEST--H. CON. RES. 25 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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