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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid), the Senator from Vermont…

On the recordJune 8, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid), 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 yeas and nays resulted--yeas 93, nays 2, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 92 Leg.] YEAS--93 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Vitter Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--2 Lee Paul NOT VOTING--5 Mikulski Reid Sanders Toomey Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 93, the nays are 2. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question occurs on agreeing to the compound motion to go to conference. The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Florida.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 8, 2016

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