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On the recordJuly 30, 2013
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Chiesa). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 65, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 191 Ex.] YEAS--65 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Hirono Johnson (SD) 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 Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--33 Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--2 Chiesa Heitkamp The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 65, the nays are 33. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The majority leader.
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