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John Cornyn: The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr.…

On the recordMay 21, 2013
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 40, nays 58, as follows; [Rollcall Vote No. 130 Leg.] YEAS--40 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--- 58 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Coburn Inhofe The amendment (No. 948) was rejected.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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May 21, 2013

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