I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hoeven). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 71, nays 24, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 35 Leg.] YEAS--71 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Graham Hatch Heitkamp Hirono Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Markey McCain McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--24 Ayotte Booker Boxer Brown Capito Collins Daines Gillibrand Grassley Heinrich Heller Hoeven Kirk Manchin Moran Murphy Paul Schatz Scott Tester Udall Vitter Warner Warren NOT VOTING--5 Cruz Lee McCaskill Rubio Sanders The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon. ____________________
Dick Durbin: “I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily…”
On the recordMarch 10, 2016
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