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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily…

On the recordJune 29, 2016
I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) 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 44, nays 54, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 114 Leg.] YEAS--44 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cruz Durbin Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Lee Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--54 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson King Kirk Lankford McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Manchin Warner The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Let's have everybody stay close to the Chamber because the next three votes are going to be 10 minutes each. I ask unanimous consent that the votes following this vote we just completed be 10 minutes in length. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 29, 2016

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