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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from…

On the recordJanuary 22, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid), and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 89, nays 5, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 23 Leg.] YEAS--89 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Gillibrand Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Markey McCaskill McConnell Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--5 Blunt Grassley Heller McCain Wicker NOT VOTING--6 Franken Graham Lee Manchin Menendez Reid The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. With the addition of Senators who did not answer the quorum call, a quorum is now present. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Can we have order in the Senate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will be in order. Mr. McCONNELL. The Senate is not yet in order, Mr. President. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 22, 2015

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