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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Donnelly), the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), and the Senator…

On the recordJune 22, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Donnelly), the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 58, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 108 Leg.] YEAS--58 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Cruz Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Manchin McCain McCaskill Mikulski Moran Nelson Perdue Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Warner Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--38 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Coons Daines Durbin Franken Gardner Gillibrand Heinrich Heller Hirono Kaine Leahy Lee Markey McConnell Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Peters Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Crapo Donnelly Feinstein Menendez The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 58, the nays are 38. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The Republican leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I enter a motion to reconsider the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 22, 2016

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