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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily…

On the recordMay 24, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 57, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 85 Leg.] YEAS--57 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Burr Cantwell Cardin Casey Coats Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Daines Enzi Ernst Feinstein Flake Franken Gardner Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heller Hirono Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Lee Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Risch Rubio Sasse Schumer Shaheen Sullivan Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Capito Cassidy Cochran Collins Cotton Donnelly Durbin Fischer Gillibrand Graham Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Leahy Manchin McConnell Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Roberts Rounds Schatz Scott Sessions Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Carper Cruz Sanders The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 24, 2016

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