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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other…

On the recordApril 19, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 49 Leg.] YEAS--66 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Reid Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--31 Barrasso Boozman Coats Corker Cotton Crapo Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Inhofe Lankford Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Cruz Perdue Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to. Amendment No. 3175, as Modified, to Amendment No. 2953 The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will now be 2 minutes of debate, equally divided, prior to a vote on amendment No. 3175, to be offered by the Senator from North Carolina, Mr. Burr. The Senator from North Carolina.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 19, 2016

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