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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), and the…

On the recordDecember 3, 2014
I announce that the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Udall) are necessarily absent. Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 307 Ex.] YEAS--68 Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Collins Coons Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Inhofe Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Pryor Reed Reid Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--27 Alexander Barrasso Boozman Burr Corker Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Heller Hoeven Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Portman Risch Roberts Scott Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Coburn Cochran Landrieu Rockefeller Udall (CO) The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 68, the nays are 27. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 3, 2014

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