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“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio) would have voted ``nay.'' The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 39, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 358 Ex.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--39 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--7 Boxer Chambliss Cochran Johanns Kirk Rubio Sanders The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 39. The motion is agreed to. The majority leader.”