I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 32, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 3 Leg.] YEAS--63 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson King Kirk Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Wicker NAYS--32 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Boxer Cantwell Cardin Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Warren Whitehouse NOT VOTING--5 Brown Cassidy Reid Rubio Wyden The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 63, the nays are 32. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The Senator from Pennsylvania is recognized. ____________________
Dick Durbin: “I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr.…”
On the recordJanuary 12, 2015
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