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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Gardner). Are…

On the recordApril 19, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Gardner). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 42, nays 55, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 51 Leg.] YEAS--42 Alexander Ayotte Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Flake Grassley Hatch Heller Isakson Johnson Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--55 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Cruz Perdue Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 3312 The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will now be 2 minutes of debate, equally divided, prior to a vote on amendment No. 3312, offered by the Senator from New Mexico, Mr. Udall. The Senator from New Mexico.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 19, 2016

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