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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily…

On the recordJune 4, 2015
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) 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 result was announced--yeas 61, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 202 Leg.] YEAS--61 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson King Kirk Lankford Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Murray Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--34 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cardin Carper Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heitkamp Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Nelson Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Tester Udall Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Boxer Graham Heller Rubio Warner The amendment (No. 1522) was agreed to. Vote on Amendment No. 1540 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question now occurs on amendment No. 1540, offered by the Senator from Rhode Island, Mr. Reed, for Mr. Bennet. If there is no further debate, the question is on agreeing to the amendment. The amendment was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana. Amendment No. 1473 to Amendment No.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 4, 2015

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