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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford).…

On the recordJune 16, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 83, nays 15, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 212 Leg.] YEAS--83 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Lee McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--15 Baldwin Brown Casey Cruz Franken Gillibrand Leahy Manchin Markey Merkley Paul Reid Sanders Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Mikulski Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 83, the nays are 15. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The Senator from Arizona. Amendment No. 1456 Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I call for the regular order with respect to the McCain amendment No. 1456. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment is now pending. Mr. McCAIN. I ask for the yeas and nays on the amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 16, 2015

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