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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) are necessarily…

On the recordJuly 15, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) are necessarily absent. I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 46, nays 50, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 240 Leg.] YEAS--46 Baldwin Bennet Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Kaine Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--50 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson King Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Blumenthal Cruz Graham Nelson The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 2241 Under the previous order, there is 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote on Murphy amendment No. 2241. The Senator from Connecticut.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 15, 2015

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