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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Gardner). Are…

On the recordFebruary 11, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Gardner). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 75, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 22 Leg.] YEAS--75 Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Sasse Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Warner Wicker Wyden NAYS--20 Alexander Boxer Brown Durbin Enzi Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Markey Menendez Mikulski Reed Reid Rounds Schatz Schumer Udall Warren Whitehouse NOT VOTING--5 Cruz Graham Rubio Sanders Sullivan The conference report was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Feb 11, 2016

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