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John Cornyn: The following Senators are necessarily absent: The Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Utah (Mr.…

On the recordJune 3, 2013
The following Senators are necessarily absent: The Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 72, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 140 Leg.] YEAS--72 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Cochran Collins Coons Cowan Crapo Donnelly Enzi Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Landrieu Leahy Levin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--18 Ayotte Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Cruz Durbin Flake Heller Kirk Manchin Paul Reed Risch Rubio Scott Shelby Toomey NOT VOTING--9 Boxer Johnson (WI) Klobuchar Lee McCain Murkowski Murphy Sessions Vitter The amendment (No. 987) was agreed to.
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John Cornyn
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Jun 3, 2013

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