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On the recordSeptember 12, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) would vote ``yea.'' The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 90, nays 1, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 138 Leg.] YEAS--90 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--1 Lee NOT VOTING--9 Coats Flake Graham Kaine Murkowski Perdue Reid Sanders Toomey The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 90, the nays are 1. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The Senator from Wisconsin. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 12, 2016

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