I announce that the Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Webb), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are necessarily absent.
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