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On the recordJanuary 9, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Markey). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 4 Leg.] YEAS--53 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--41 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Murkowski Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--6 Boxer Casey Coburn Inhofe Moran Paul The motion was agreed to.
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John Cornyn
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