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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are…

On the recordJune 2, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 83, nays 14, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 197 Leg.] YEAS--83 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--14 Barrasso Cotton Crapo Enzi Ernst Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sanders Sessions Shelby Udall NOT VOTING--3 Blunt Graham Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 83, the nays are 14. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The majority whip.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 2, 2015

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