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On the recordDecember 3, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 60, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 304 Ex.] YEAS--60 Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Pryor Reed Reid Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--36 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Portman Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Coburn Cochran Landrieu Rockefeller The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 60, the nays are 36. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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