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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), and the Senator…

On the recordFebruary 25, 2016
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hoeven). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 93, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 26 Leg.] YEAS--93 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker 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 Lee Manchin Markey McCain McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Booker Cornyn Cruz McCaskill Rubio Sanders Wicker The resolution (S. Res. 374) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the preamble is agreed to. (The resolution, with its preamble, is printed in the Record of February 24, 2016, under ``Submitted Resolutions.'') The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table. The Senator from Oklahoma.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Feb 25, 2016

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