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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) and the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) are necessarily absent.…

On the recordJanuary 8, 2015
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) 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 93, nays 4, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 2 Leg.] YEAS--93 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--4 Cantwell Rubio Sanders Warren NOT VOTING--3 Boxer Capito Reid The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 60-vote threshold having been achieved, the bill (H.R. 26) is passed. Mr. McCONNELL. I move to reconsider the vote.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 8, 2015

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