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

On the recordJanuary 24, 2013
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Coats), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 86, nays 9, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 2 Leg.] YEAS--86 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine Kerry King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--9 Cruz Johnson (WI) Lee Paul Rubio Sanders Scott Sessions Shelby NOT VOTING--5 Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Graham The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 86 and the nays are 9. Two-thirds of those voting having voted in the affirmative, the resolution is agreed to.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Jan 24, 2013

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