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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent.…

On the recordNovember 10, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 82, nays 7, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 303 Leg.] YEAS--82 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--7 Corker Flake Lee Perdue Risch Sasse Shelby NOT VOTING--11 Crapo Cruz Gardner Graham Heller Johnson Leahy Paul Rubio Vitter Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 82, the nays are 7. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Under the previous order, the compound motion is agreed to. The Senator from Mississippi. Motion to Instruct
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Nov 10, 2015

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