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John Cornyn: The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr.…

On the recordSeptember 27, 2013
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 79, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 206 Leg.] YEAS--79 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Chiesa Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--19 Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Heller Inhofe Lee Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--2 Flake Hatch The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there any other Senator wishing to vote? If not, a reminder that expressions of approval or disapproval are not permitted in the Senate. On this vote, the yeas are 79, the nays are 19.…
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John Cornyn
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Sep 27, 2013

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