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

On the recordApril 26, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) 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 12, nays 84, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 63 Leg.] YEAS--12 Barrasso Coats Enzi Flake Gardner Heller Johnson Lankford Lee McCain Moran Sasse NAYS--84 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Vitter Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Cruz Sanders Toomey Warner The amendment (No. 3820) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Hawaii. Unanimous Consent Request--Executive Calendar
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 26, 2016

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