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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from…

On the recordJuly 24, 2015
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer), are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 252 Leg.] YEAS--51 Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Boxer Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Cornyn Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Isakson Johnson King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin McCain McConnell Perdue Peters Risch Roberts Rounds Schatz Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--26 Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Cruz Heinrich Hirono Kaine Lee Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Paul Reed Reid Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Udall Warner Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--23 Alexander Blunt Booker Boozman Carper Coons Corker Cotton Flake Gillibrand Heller Inhofe Markey McCaskill Menendez Moran Murray Nelson Portman Sanders Schumer Toomey Vitter The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 24, 2015

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