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

On the recordApril 19, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 34, nays 63, as follows: [Rollcall No. 50 Leg.] YEAS--34 Barrasso Boozman Cassidy Coats Corker Cornyn Cotton Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Vitter NAYS--63 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Cruz Perdue Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 3311 to Amendment No. 2953 There will now be 2 minutes of debate, equally divided, prior to a vote on amendment No. 3311, to be offered by the Senator from Arkansas, Mr. Boozman. The Senator from Arkansas.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 19, 2016

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