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

On the recordDecember 3, 2015
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 77, nays 22, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 330 Leg.] YEAS--77 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Markey McConnell Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Scott Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Vitter Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--22 Ayotte Booker Carper Coons Corker Durbin Flake Gillibrand Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Perdue Reed Reid Schumer Sessions Shaheen Toomey Warner Warren NOT VOTING--1 Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 77, the nays are 22. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The question occurs on the adoption of the conference report to accompany H.R. 22.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 3, 2015

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