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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily…

On the recordJune 9, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. THE PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 56, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 96 Leg.] YEAS--56 Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Casey Cassidy Coats Collins Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Klobuchar McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--42 Alexander Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Cochran Coons Corker Durbin Enzi Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Grassley Heller Hirono Kirk Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Reed Reid Schatz Schumer Shaheen Tester Udall Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Sanders Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 56, the nays are 42. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The Senator from Arizona. Amendment No. 4229 Withdrawn Mr. McCAIN. Madam President, I withdraw my amendment No. 4229. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has that right, and the amendment is withdrawn. Amendment No. 4607 Mr. McCAIN.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 9, 2016

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