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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any…

On the recordMarch 24, 2015
I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 94, nays 3, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 79 Leg.] YEAS--94 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--3 Flake Lee Sessions NOT VOTING--3 Cruz Kirk Manchin The amendment (No. 386) was agreed to. Amendment No. 349 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 349, offered by the Senator from Ohio, Mr. Portman. The Senator from Ohio.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 24, 2015

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