Dick Durbin: “I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other…”

“I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 64 Leg.] YEAS--50 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kirk Lankford Manchin McCain Menendez Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Scott Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Vitter Wicker NAYS--46 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Durbin Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heller Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Markey McCaskill McConnell Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Cruz Sanders Sessions Toomey The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 46. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I enter a motion to reconsider the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I think we have come up with yet another definition of obstruction today.…”