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On the recordJune 4, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 67, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 174 Ex.] YEAS--67 Alexander Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Chambliss Coats Collins Coons Corker Crapo Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--28 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Coburn Cornyn Cruz Enzi Fischer Graham Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk McConnell Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Booker Boozman Casey Cochran Lee The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 67, the nays are 28. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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