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

On the recordDecember 18, 2015
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 31, nays 67, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 337 Leg.] YEAS--31 Boozman Burr Cassidy Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Heller Lankford Lee Manchin McCain Moran Paul Portman Risch Sanders Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Vitter NAYS--67 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Boxer Rubio The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from West Virginia.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 18, 2015

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