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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily…

On the recordJune 7, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 32, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 90 Leg.] YEAS--66 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Reid Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Udall Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--32 Barrasso Coats Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Graham Hatch Inhofe Lankford Lee McCain McConnell Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Sullivan Tillis Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--2 Sanders Warner The amendment (No. 4369) was agreed to. (At the request of Mr. Reid, the following statement was ordered to be printed in the Record.) vote explanation <bullet> Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, due to a prior commitment, I regret I was not present to vote on Senate amendment No. 4369, offered by Senator Durbin. I am a cosponsor of this amendment, and had I been present, I would have voted in support of the amendment.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 7, 2016

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