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On the recordMay 23, 2013
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake). The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 27, nays 71, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 135 Leg.] YEAS--27 Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Cantwell Cardin Feinstein Heinrich Hirono King Leahy Manchin Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Tester Udall (NM) Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--71 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Baucus Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cowan Crapo Cruz Donnelly Durbin Enzi Fischer Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Lee Levin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Vitter Warner Warren Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Flake Lautenberg The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected.
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John Cornyn
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