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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken), and the Senator from…

On the recordJanuary 22, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken), and the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 26 Leg.] YEAS--52 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kirk Lankford McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--43 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Coons Franken Graham Lee Reid The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Vote on Amendment No. 30 Mr. McCONNELL. I call for regular order with respect to Leahy amendment No. 30. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment is now pending. Mr. McCONNELL. I move to table the amendment and ask for the yeas and nays.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 22, 2015

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