The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 40, nays 58, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 213 Leg.] YEAS--40 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Tester Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--58 Alexander Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coons Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Cochran Johanns The amendment (No. 3380) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question is on agreeing to amendment No. 3381 offered by the Senator from Iowa, Mr. Harkin. The amendment (No. 3381) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the substitute amendment, No. 3378, as amended, is agreed to.…
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