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John Cornyn: The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms.…

On the recordNovember 7, 2013
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Heitkamp). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 43, nays 55, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 230 Leg.] YEAS--43 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--55 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Collins Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Casey Coburn The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for adoption of the amendment, the amendment is rejected. Under the previous order, the committee-reported substitute amendment, as amended, is agreed to. Cloture Motion Under the previous order, the cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.…
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Nov 7, 2013

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