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

On the recordJuly 27, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters) are necesarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 14, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 255 Leg.] YEAS--79 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Cornyn Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--14 Ayotte Boozman Collins Cotton Heller Lankford McCain Moran Paul Perdue Sullivan Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--7 Blunt Coons Corker Flake Markey Peters Rubio The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. A quorum is present. The majority leader. Vote on Amendment No. 2329 Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I move to table amendment No. 2329. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion. The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Democratic leader. Amendment No. 2328
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 27, 2015

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