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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from…

On the recordMarch 7, 2016
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) 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 86, nays 3, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 32 Leg.] YEAS--86 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin McCain McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--3 Lee Markey Sasse NOT VOTING--11 Boxer Carper Cruz McCaskill Mikulski Murkowski Nelson Rubio Sanders Toomey Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 86, the nays are 3. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The Senator from Ohio.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 7, 2016

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