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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent.…

On the recordJuly 8, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 50, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 223 Leg.] YEAS--47 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gardner Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Kaine Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--50 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 King Rubio Stabenow The amendment (No. 2109) was rejected. Amendment No. 2107 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes equally divided prior to a vote on amendment No. 2107, offered by the Senator from Washington, Mrs. Murray, for Mr. Tester. The Senator from Montana.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 8, 2015

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