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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), and the…

On the recordJuly 16, 2014
I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Heitkamp). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 226 Ex.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--43 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Mikulski Rockefeller Schatz The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yes are 54, the nays are 43. The motion is agreed to. Under the previous order, the time until 12:20 p.m. will be divided between the two leaders or their designees. Who yields time? If no one yields time, the time will be charged equally. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Massachusetts.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 16, 2014

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