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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Florida…

On the recordJune 16, 2016
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 24, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 102 Leg.] YEAS--70 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cruz Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Peters Portman Reed Reid Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--24 Barrasso Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Enzi Ernst Flake Gardner Heller Lankford Lee Perdue Risch Roberts Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--6 Boxer Inhofe Leahy Nelson Rubio Sanders The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 16, 2016

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