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On the recordJanuary 30, 2014
I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 34, nays 65, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 16 Leg.] YEAS--34 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Hatch Heller Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Portman Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey NAYS--65 Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Pryor Reed Reid Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Rockefeller The amendment (No. 2707), as modified, was rejected.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 30, 2014

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