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

On the recordDecember 3, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 10, nays 89, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 323 Leg.] YEAS--10 Barrasso Cruz Enzi Kirk Lee Moran Paul Sessions Shelby Vitter NAYS--89 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The Senator from Wyoming.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 3, 2015

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