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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Florida…

On the recordJune 16, 2016
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 101 Leg.] YEAS--66 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Cruz Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Peters Portman Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--29 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Hatch Heller Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee McConnell Perdue Risch Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Tillis Vitter NOT VOTING--5 Boxer Leahy Nelson Rubio Sanders The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Rhode Island. Motion to Instruct
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 16, 2016

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