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On the recordJune 6, 2013
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Coats). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 40, nays 57, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 142 Leg.] YEAS--40 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Carper Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Portman Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NAYS--57 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Coons Cowan Crapo Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Lee Levin Manchin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Pryor Reed Reid Risch Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Coats McCaskill The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 40, the nays are 57. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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