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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cassidy). Are…

On the recordSeptember 24, 2015
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cassidy). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 47, nays 52, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 270 Leg.] YEAS--47 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--52 Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cotton Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Peters Reed Reid Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Boxer The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 47, the nays are 52. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The majority leader. Vote on Motion to Commit Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I move to table the motion to commit. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion. The motion was agreed to. Vote on Amendment No. 2672. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 24, 2015

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