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On the recordFebruary 25, 2014
I announce that the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Levin) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Heitkamp). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 40 Ex.] YEAS--55 Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker ANSWERED ``PRESENT'' --1 Hatch NOT VOTING--2 Levin Nelson The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 55, the nays are 42, 1 Senator voting ``present.'' The motion is agreed to. The majority leader.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Feb 25, 2014

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