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On the recordJuly 14, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken) and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 90, nays 7, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 130 Leg.] YEAS--90 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Lankford Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--7 Gillibrand Leahy Markey Paul Reid Sanders Warren NOT VOTING--3 Franken Klobuchar Lee The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 90, the nays are 7. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Under the previous order, the compound motion to go to conference is agreed to. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the next two votes be 10 minutes in length. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 14, 2016

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