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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Donnelly) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any…

On the recordMarch 4, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Donnelly) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 68 Leg.] YEAS--62 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kirk Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Warner Wicker NAYS--37 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Donnelly The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 62, the nays are 37. Two-thirds of the Senators voting, a quorum being present, not having voted in the affirmative, the bill, on reconsideration, fails to pass over the veto of the President of the United States.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 4, 2015

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