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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent.…

On the recordJuly 8, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 45, nays 52, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 225 Leg.] YEAS--45 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Cassidy Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Lee McCain McConnell Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--52 Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Kaine Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 King Rubio Stabenow The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Vote on Amendment No. 2124 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes equally divided prior to a vote on amendment No. 2124, offered by the Senator from Washington, Mrs. Murray. The Senator from Washington.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 8, 2015

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