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On the recordSeptember 27, 2013
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 209 Leg.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--44 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Chiesa Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Graham Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Flake Hatch The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 59), as amended, was passed. ____________________
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