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John Cornyn: The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Georgia (Mr.…

On the recordJanuary 24, 2013
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Coats), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham). The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 78, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 1 Leg.] YEAS--78 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine Kerry King Kirk Klobuchar Lautenberg Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--16 Crapo Cruz Flake Hatch Heller Johnson (WI) Lee Paul Risch Rubio Sanders Scott Sessions Shelby Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--6 Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Graham Landrieu The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The 60-vote threshold having been achieved, the resolution is agreed to.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Jan 24, 2013

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