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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily…

On the recordJune 29, 2016
I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 85, nays 13, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 115 Leg.] YEAS--85 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee McCain McCaskill McConnell Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--13 Baldwin Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Perdue Sanders Tester Warren NOT VOTING--2 Manchin Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 85, the nays are 13. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is yielded back. Motion to Concur With Amendment No. 4865 Withdrawn Under the previous order, the motion to concur with an amendment is withdrawn.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 29, 2016

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