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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 44, nays 54, as…

On the recordJanuary 29, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 44, nays 54, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 48 Leg.] YEAS--44 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--54 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kirk Lankford Lee McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Reid Rubio The amendment was rejected.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 29, 2015

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