The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 219 Leg.] YEAS--81 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Chiesa Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--18 Coburn Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Grassley Heller Johnson (WI) Lee Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--1 Inhofe The bill (H.R. 2775), as amended, was passed. The amendment (No. 2005) was agreed to, as follows: Amend the title to read: ``An Act making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes.''
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