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Dick Durbin: Mr. Durbin, I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative…

On the recordJanuary 22, 2015
Mr. Durbin, I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll, and the following Senators entered the Chamber and answered to their names: [Quorum No. 4 Leg.] Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson King Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden The PRESIDING OFFICER. A quorum is present. vote on amendment no. 25 The question is on agreeing to the motion. The yeas and nays have been previously ordered. The clerk will call the roll.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 22, 2015

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