The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 61 Ex.] YEAS--62 Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Lee Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--34 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Begich Harkin Kirk McCain The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 62 and the nays are 34. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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