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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) are…

On the recordMarch 26, 2015
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 129 Leg.] YEAS--49 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson King Lankford Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--48 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cornyn Durbin Enzi Flake Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Feinstein Kirk Mikulski The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 48. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The point of order is sustained and the amendment falls. The majority leader. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 26, 2015

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