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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) are necessarily absent.…

On the recordJuly 14, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 56, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 233 Leg.] YEAS--56 Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Inhofe Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Cassidy Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Hoeven Isakson Johnson Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Carper Graham Nelson Rubio The amendment (No. 2169) was agreed to. Amendment No. 2137 The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is now 2 minutes of debate prior to a vote on the Portman amendment No. 2137. The Senator from Ohio.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 14, 2015

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