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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Flake). Are…

On the recordMay 19, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Flake). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 77 Leg.] YEAS--68 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Reid Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Tillis Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--30 Barrasso Coats Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Heller Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee McCain Moran Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey NOT VOTING--2 Cruz Sanders The amendment (No. 3900), as modified, as amended, was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maine.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 19, 2016

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