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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily…

On the recordMay 19, 2016
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) 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 60, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 81 Leg.] YEAS--60 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Reid Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--37 Barrasso Boozman Capito Cassidy Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Heller Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee McConnell Moran Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Boxer Cruz Sanders The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maine. Amendments Nos. 4050 and 4026, as Modified, to Amendment No. 3896
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 19, 2016

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