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John Cornyn: The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any…

On the recordJune 11, 2013
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 84, nays 15, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 147 Leg.] YEAS--84 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Chiesa Coats Coburn Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--15 Barrasso Boozman Cochran Crapo Cruz Enzi Inhofe Kirk Lee Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Vitter NOT VOTING--1 McCain The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Jun 11, 2013

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