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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily…

On the recordJune 23, 2016
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 67, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 110 Leg.] YEAS--67 Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Lee Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Peters Reed Reid Risch Roberts Sasse Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--31 Alexander Blunt Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Ernst Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Manchin McCain McConnell Murkowski Perdue Portman Rounds Rubio Scott Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Feinstein Sanders The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 23, 2016

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