I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. THE PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hoeven). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 65 Leg.] YEAS--52 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Kirk Lankford Manchin McCain McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--43 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Durbin Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heller Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Markey McCaskill Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Booker Boxer Cruz Johnson Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 43. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, upon reconsideration, the motion is rejected. The majority leader. Cloture Motion Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I send a cloture motion to the desk for the Alexander substitute amendment No. 3801. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…
Dick Durbin: “I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), and the Senator from…”
On the recordApril 28, 2016
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