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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), and the Senator…

On the recordMay 31, 2015
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Barrasso). Are there any Senators in the Chamber wishing to vote or to change their vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 77, nays 17, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 196 Leg.] YEAS--77 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Coons Corker Cornyn Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Rounds Sanders Schumer Scott Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--17 Barrasso Blunt Coats Collins Cotton Crapo Ernst Fischer Grassley Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune NOT VOTING--6 Enzi Graham Menendez Murray Sasse Schatz The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 77, the nays are 17. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, upon reconsideration, the motion is agreed to. The Senator from Kentucky.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 31, 2015

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