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On the recordApril 17, 2013
Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The question is on agreeing to the Cornyn amendment. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 57, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 100 Leg.] YEAS--57 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Landrieu Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Wicker NAYS--43 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cowan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lautenberg Leahy Levin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Warren Whitehouse Wyden The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to.
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John Cornyn
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