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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), and the Senator from…

On the recordJuly 27, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 64, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 256 Leg.] YEAS--64 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--29 Barrasso Boozman Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Fischer Gardner Grassley Hatch Inhofe Lankford Lee McConnell Paul Perdue Risch Sanders Sasse Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--7 Blunt Coons Corker Flake Markey Peters Rubio The amendment (No. 2327) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Cloture Motion Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum call with respect to the cloture vote on the McConnell amendment No. 2266, as modified, be waived. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 27, 2015

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