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On the recordMay 23, 2013
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 44, nays 52, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 137 Leg.] YEAS--44 Ayotte Baldwin Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Collins Crapo Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hatch Heinrich Heller Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kirk Klobuchar Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Reed Risch Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--52 Alexander Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Coons Corker Cornyn Cowan Cruz Donnelly Enzi Fischer Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kaine King Landrieu Leahy McConnell Moran Murphy Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reid Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Vitter Warner Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Boxer Flake Lautenberg Levin The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan.
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John Cornyn
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