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On the recordDecember 1, 2011
I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The question is on agreeing to the amendment. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 45, nays 55, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 213 Leg.] YEAS--45 Akaka Baucus Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Conrad Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Johnson (SD) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Lee Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Paul Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--55 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Begich Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kyl Landrieu Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson (NE) Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Snowe Stabenow Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker The amendment (No. 1125) was rejected.
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming
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govinfo.gov
Dec 1, 2011

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