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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other…

On the recordJanuary 21, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 11 Leg.] YEAS--59 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Peters Portman Reed Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Grassley Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Lee McConnell Moran Perdue Risch Roberts Rubio Sanders Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Reid The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 affirmative votes for the adoption of the amendment, the amendment is rejected.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 21, 2015

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