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On the recordNovember 19, 2013
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators wishing to vote or to change their vote? The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 238 Leg.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Reid Rockefeller Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse NAYS--46 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Leahy Lee McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Sanders Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Warren Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Blunt Isakson The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The majority leader.
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John Cornyn
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