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On the recordJuly 14, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken) and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 84, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 131 Leg.] YEAS--84 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Gillibrand Graham Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--12 Cruz Grassley Heller Inhofe Lankford Paul Risch Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Vitter NOT VOTING--4 Crapo Franken Klobuchar Lee The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska. Motion to Instruct
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 14, 2016

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