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On the recordDecember 13, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 77, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 352 Leg.] YEAS--77 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Enzi Fischer Flake Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Markey McCain McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--19 Brown Crapo Cruz Franken Heller Lee Manchin McCaskill Moran Paul Portman Risch Rubio Sanders Scott Sessions Shelby Vitter Warren NOT VOTING--4 Chambliss Coburn Feinstein Inhofe The PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 77, the nays are 19. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Cloture having been invoked, the motion to refer falls. agricultural exemptions
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