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On the recordMay 7, 2014
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 45, nays 51, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 133 Leg.] YEAS--45 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--51 Baldwin Begich Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Reid Rockefeller Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Bennet Boozman Pryor Sanders The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The senior Senator from Minnesota. ____________________
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