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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Casper), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), and the Senator from…

On the recordApril 20, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Casper), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 25, nays 71, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 56 Leg.] YEAS--25 Barrasso Coats Cornyn Crapo Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee McCain Moran Risch Rubio Sasse Scott Thune Toomey NAYS--71 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cotton Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Tillis Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Carper Casey Cruz Sanders The amendment (No. 3803) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Tennessee. Amendment No. 3811 to Amendment No. 3801
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 20, 2016

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