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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) is necessarily absent. I further announce that, if present and voting…

On the recordJuly 9, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) is necessarily absent. I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) would vote ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 44, nays 52, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 230 Leg.] YEAS--44 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--52 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kirk Lankford Lee McCain McConnell Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sanders Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Crapo King Moran Rubio The motion was rejected. The Presiding Officer appointed Mr. McCain, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Wicker, Ms. Ayotte, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Rounds, Mr. Graham, Mr. Reed, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Manchin, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Donnelly, Ms. Hirono, and Mr. Kaine conferees on the part of the Senate. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 9, 2015

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