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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 Utah (Mr. Hatch) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 207 Leg.] YEAS--68 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Chiesa Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--30 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Corker Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--2 Flake Hatch The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 68, the nays are 30. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.…
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John Cornyn
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