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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 7, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 91 Leg.] YEAS--70 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Casey Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Inhofe Kaine Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reid Roberts Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Tillis Udall Vitter Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--28 Carper Cassidy Coats Corker Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Flake Graham Hoeven Isakson Johnson King Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Sasse Thune Toomey NOT VOTING--2 Sanders Warner The amendment (No. 4204) was agreed to. (At the request of Mr. Reid, the following statement was ordered to be printed in the Record.) vote explanation <bullet> Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, due to a prior commitment, I regret I was not present to vote on Senate amendment No. 4204, offered by Senator Inhofe. I am a cosponsor of this amendment, and had I been present, I would have voted in support of the amendment.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 7, 2016

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