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John Cornyn: The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Arizona (Mr.…

On the recordMay 23, 2013
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Coons). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 139 Leg.] YEAS--59 Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Coburn Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cruz Durbin Feinstein Franken Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) King Kirk Klobuchar Lee Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Reed Reid Rubio Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--33 Barrasso Baucus Blunt Boozman Chambliss Cochran Cowan Crapo Donnelly Enzi Fischer Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Kaine Landrieu Leahy McConnell Moran Pryor Risch Roberts Sanders Shelby Stabenow Thune Warner Wicker NOT VOTING--8 Alexander Boxer Flake Heller Inhofe Lautenberg Rockefeller Vitter The amendment (No. 953) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon. Amendment No. 978
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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May 23, 2013

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