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John Cornyn: The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas…

On the recordOctober 16, 2013
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 83, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 218 Leg.] YEAS--83 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Chiesa Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--16 Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Grassley Heller Johnson (WI) Lee Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--1 Inhofe Under the previous order, cloture having been invoked, all time is yielded back. The bill, as amended, was ordered to a third reading and was read the third time. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the bill, as amended, having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass?
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Oct 16, 2013

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