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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from…

On the recordJanuary 28, 2016
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson), 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 62, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 8 Leg.] YEAS--62 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Ernst Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Johnson Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Reid Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--29 Barrasso Boozman Burr Cassidy Corker Cotton Crapo Daines Enzi Fischer Flake Heller Hoeven Kirk Lankford Lee McCain McConnell Moran Perdue Risch Roberts Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Tillis Toomey NOT VOTING--9 Boxer Cruz Gardner Inhofe Mikulski Nelson Paul Rubio Sanders The amendment (No. 2982) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the time until 1:45 p.m. will be equally divided between the managers or their designees. The Senator from New Hampshire. Remembering the Crewmembers of the Space Shuttle ``Challenger''
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 28, 2016

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