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

On the recordMay 17, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 75 Leg.] YEAS--68 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Reid Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Tillis Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--29 Barrasso Coats Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Heller Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Moran Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey NOT VOTING--3 Cruz Enzi Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 68, the nays are 29. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The Senator from Maine. Amendment No. 3946 to Amendment No. 3900, as Modified
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 17, 2016

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