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On the recordApril 22, 2013
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 74, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 107 Leg.] YEAS--74 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cowan Crapo Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Mikulski Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shelby Stabenow Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--20 Ayotte Baucus Coburn Cornyn Cruz Grassley Hatch Heller Inhofe Kirk Lee McConnell Paul Roberts Rubio Scott Tester Toomey Vitter Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Boxer Johnson (WI) Lautenberg Merkley Murkowski Shaheen The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 74, the nays are 20. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Vote Explanation <bullet> Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I was unable to attend the rollcall vote that occurred on Monday, April 22, 2013.…
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