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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. (Mrs. Fischer). Are…

On the recordJanuary 29, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 39, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 43 Leg.] YEAS--59 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--39 Barrasso Boozman Cassidy Coats Cochran Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Lee McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Reid Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment, as modified, is rejected.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 29, 2015

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