I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 47, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 64 Leg.] YEAS--47 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey NAYS--43 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--10 Blunt Brown Gardner Kirk McCaskill Nelson Paul Shelby Vitter Wicker The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 47, the nays are 43. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The Senator from Mississippi.
Dick Durbin: “I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), and the Senator from…”
On the recordMarch 2, 2015
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