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On the recordMarch 5, 2014
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn would have voted -``nay.'' The VICE PRESIDENT. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 47, nays 52, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 48 Ex.] YEAS--47 Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--52 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Pryor Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Walsh Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Cornyn The VICE PRESIDENT. On this vote the yeas are 47, the nays are 52. The motion is rejected. The Senator from Nevada.
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John Thune
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