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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) and the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) are necessarily absent.…

On the recordJanuary 8, 2015
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) and the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hoeven). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 31, nays 66, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 1 Leg.] YEAS--31 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hirono Kaine Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--66 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Boxer Capito Reid The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of the amendment, the amendment is rejected. The bill was ordered to a third reading and was read the third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the bill having been read the third time the question is, Shall the bill pass?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 8, 2015

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