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John Cornyn: The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Chiesa) and the Senator from Idaho (Mr.…

On the recordJune 19, 2013
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Chiesa) and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 89, nays 9, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 157 Leg.] YEAS--89 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Coons Corker Cornyn Cowan Crapo Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--9 Barrasso Coats Collins Cruz Enzi Johnson (WI) Lee Scott Sessions NOT VOTING--2 Chiesa Risch The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to. The majority leader.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Jun 19, 2013

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