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John Cornyn: The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly).…

On the recordJune 20, 2013
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 159 Leg.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Landrieu Leahy Levin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--43 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Chiesa Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee Manchin McConnell Moran Murkowski Portman Pryor Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Klobuchar Risch Rockefeller The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Jun 20, 2013

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