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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken), and the Senator from…

On the recordJanuary 22, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken), 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 57, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 25 Leg.] YEAS--57 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kirk Klobuchar Lankford McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker Wyden NAYS--38 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse NOT VOTING--5 Coons Franken Graham Lee Reid The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Vote on Amendment No. 28 Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I call for regular order with respect to the Whitehouse amendment No. 28. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment is now pending. Mr. McCONNELL. I move to table the amendment and ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 22, 2015

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