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John Cornyn: The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Georgia (Mr.…

On the recordJune 24, 2013
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi), and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 67, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 160 Leg.] YEAS--67 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chiesa Collins Coons Corker Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--27 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo Cruz Fischer Grassley Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--6 Brown Chambliss Enzi Isakson Lee Udall (CO) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly). On this vote, the yeas are 67, the nays are 27. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.…
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John Cornyn
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Jun 24, 2013

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