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

On the recordApril 15, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 86, nays 11, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 146 Leg.] YEAS--86 Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--11 Alexander Burr Coats Cotton Crapo Flake Hatch Risch Sasse Tillis Toomey NOT VOTING--3 Cruz Reid Vitter The motion was agreed to. Sanders Motion to Instruct The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is now 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to the motion to instruct offered by the Senator from Vermont relative to postal plant closures. The Senator from Vermont.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 15, 2015

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