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On the recordMay 14, 2014
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman). The PRESIDING OFFICER. (Mr. Coons). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 64, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 146 Ex.] YEAS--64 Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--34 Alexander Blunt Burr Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Boozman Rockefeller The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 64, the nays are 34. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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