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

On the recordJuly 14, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 32, nays 64, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 235 Leg.] YEAS--32 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Cassidy Coats Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee McCain Moran Paul Perdue Risch Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--64 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Graham Nelson Rubio Sullivan The amendment (No. 2162) was rejected. Amendment No. 2093 The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will now be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote on Franken amendment No. 2093. The Senator from Minnesota.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 14, 2015

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