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

On the recordDecember 3, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 83, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 331 Leg.] YEAS--83 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--16 Carper Corker Cotton Crapo Cruz Flake Lankford Lee Paul Perdue Risch Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Warren NOT VOTING--1 Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 60-vote threshold having been achieved, the conference report to accompany H.R. 22 is agreed to. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I wish to take a few moments to congratulate the chairman of our environment committee, Senator Inhofe, and his ranking member, Senator Boxer, for an extraordinary job. This has been a fascinating experience, particularly for Senator Boxer and me.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 3, 2015

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