The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 73, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 181 Leg.] YEAS--73 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Chiesa Cochran Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Inhofe Isakson Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--26 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Burr Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Graham Grassley Hoeven Johanns Lee McConnell Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Vitter NOT VOTING--1 Moran The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the ayes are 73 and the nays are 26. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Under the previous order, cloture having been invoked, all postcloture time is yielded back. The question is on agreeing to the motion to proceed. The motion was agreed to. The Senator from Washington.
John Cornyn: “The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any…”
On the recordJuly 23, 2013
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