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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), and the Senator from…

On the recordApril 25, 2016
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 55, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 60 Leg.] YEAS--55 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gardner Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Reid Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--38 Barrasso Boozman Coats Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Wicker NOT VOTING--7 Boxer Cruz Graham Merkley Sanders Toomey Vitter The amendment (No. 3813) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Tennessee. Amendments Nos. 3841; 3842; 3851; 3843; 3844; 3808; 3869, as modified; and 3870 to Amendment No. 3801
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 25, 2016

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