[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Pages 5972-5973]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND FULL-YEAR CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2011

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the clerk will 
report H.R. 1473, which was received from the House.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 1473) making appropriations for the Department 
     of Defense and the other departments and agencies of the 
     Government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, and 
     for other purposes.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 2 
minutes of debate, equally divided prior to a vote.
  The Senator from Illinois.
  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I yield back all time on both sides and 
ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to 
be a sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no further debate, the question is 
on the third reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to a third reading and was read the third time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill having been read the third time, the 
question is, Shall the bill pass? The yeas and nays have been ordered 
and the clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 19, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 61 Leg.]

                                YEAS--81

     Akaka
     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Baucus
     Begich
     Bennet
     Bingaman
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Boxer
     Brown (MA)
     Brown (OH)
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Grassley
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hoeven

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     Hutchison
     Inouye
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (SD)
     Kerry
     Kirk
     Klobuchar
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Lieberman
     Lugar
     Manchin
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (NE)
     Nelson (FL)
     Portman
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shaheen
     Snowe
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warner
     Webb
     Whitehouse
     Wicker

                                NAYS--19

     Coburn
     Crapo
     DeMint
     Ensign
     Graham
     Hatch
     Inhofe
     Johnson (WI)
     Leahy
     Lee
     Levin
     Paul
     Risch
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Shelby
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wyden
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 81, the nays are 19. 
Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for passage, the bill is 
passed.
  The bill (H.R. 1473) was passed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to 
reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table.
  Under the previous order, the Secretary will immediately notify the 
House of the Senate's action on the House measures.
  The majority leader.

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