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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any…

On the recordMay 12, 2015
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 176 Leg.] YEAS--52 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kirk Lankford Lee McCain Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--45 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Booker Graham Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 45. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I enter a motion to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I move to proceed to H.R. 1314. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 12, 2015

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