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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from…

On the recordApril 4, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 87, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 39 Leg.] YEAS--87 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--13 Ayotte Carper Cruz Gardner Gillibrand Leahy Lee Mikulski Murkowski Sanders Sullivan Toomey Vitter The bill (S. 1890), as amended, was passed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 4, 2016

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