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On the recordFebruary 12, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Coons.) Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 67, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 33 Leg.] YEAS--67 Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johanns 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 Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--31 Alexander Ayotte Blunt Boozman Burr Coats Cochran Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Graham Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Lee Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Chambliss Coburn The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the ayes are 67, the nays are 31. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is yielded back. The question is on agreeing to the motion to concur.
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John Cornyn
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