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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), the Senator from…

On the recordFebruary 22, 2016
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), the Senator from North Dakota (Ms. Heitkamp), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 80, nays 6, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 24 Ex.] YEAS--80 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Hirono Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee McCain McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Perdue Peters Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--6 Ayotte Blumenthal Manchin Markey Nelson Portman NOT VOTING--14 Blunt Booker Casey Cruz Flake Heitkamp Heller Hoeven McCaskill Rubio Sanders Shelby Toomey Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 80, the nays are 6. The motion is agreed to. Cloture having been invoked, the clerk will report the nomination.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Feb 22, 2016

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