The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 81, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 224 Ex.] YEAS--81 Alexander Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Chiesa Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Crapo Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--18 Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Coburn Cornyn Cruz Enzi Graham Heller Johnson (WI) Lee McConnell Moran Risch Roberts Rubio Vitter NOT VOTING--1 Inhofe The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 81, the nays are 18. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. ____________________
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