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On the recordMay 14, 2013
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 119 Leg.] YEAS--52 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Begich Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Landrieu Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--44 Baldwin Baucus Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cowan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Heinrich Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Lautenberg Murkowski Murray Nelson The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected.
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John Cornyn
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