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

On the recordJune 26, 2013
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Murphy). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 67, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 164 Leg.] YEAS--67 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Corker Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--31 Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Chiesa Coats Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Blunt Lee The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 67, the nays 31. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The Senator from Vermont.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Jun 26, 2013

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