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On the recordMarch 26, 2014
I announce that the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 75, nays 23, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 83 Ex.] YEAS--75 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--23 Blunt Burr Chambliss Coats Corker Crapo Cruz Fischer Grassley Heller Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee Moran Paul Risch Sessions Shaheen Shelby Thune Vitter NOT VOTING--2 Landrieu Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 75, the nays are 23. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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govinfo.gov
Mar 26, 2014

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