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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 16, 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 68, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 244 Leg.] YEAS--68 Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gardner Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murphy Murray Peters Reed Reid Risch Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--30 Alexander Barrasso Burr Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Grassley Hatch Heller Isakson Lankford Lee Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Roberts Rounds Sessions Shelby Thune Tillis Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Graham Nelson The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to. Amendment No. 2247, as Modified The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote on the Burr amendment No. 2247, as modified. The Senator from North Carolina.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 16, 2015

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