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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) are necessarily absent.…

On the recordJuly 14, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 45, nays 51, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 232 Leg.] YEAS--45 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Cassidy Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Lee McCain McConnell Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--51 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Carper Graham Nelson Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 2169 The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is now 2 minutes of debate prior to a vote on the Booker amendment No. 2169.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 14, 2015

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