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On the recordJune 27, 2013
I ask for the yeas and nays. The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll. The VICE PRESIDENT. Before the Chair announces the vote, expressions of approval or disapproval are not permitted in the Senate. The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 32, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 168 Leg.] YEAS--68 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chiesa Collins Coons Corker Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--32 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker The bill (S. 744), as amended, was passed, as follows: S. 744 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 27, 2013

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