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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any…

On the recordFebruary 27, 2015
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 34, nays 65, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 60 Leg.] YEAS--34 Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hatch Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Lankford Lee Moran Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--65 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Boxer The motion was rejected. Amendment Nos. 258, 257, and 256 Withdrawn The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, amendment Nos. 258, 257, and 256 are withdrawn. Amendment No. 255 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote on amendment No. 255, offered by the Senator from Kentucky, Mr. McConnell. Who yields time?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Feb 27, 2015

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