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

On the recordApril 26, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Boozman). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 73, nays 23, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 62 Leg.] YEAS--73 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Inhofe Isakson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Reid Rubio Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Udall Vitter Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--23 Coats Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Ernst Hoeven Johnson Lankford Lee Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Tillis NOT VOTING--4 Cruz Sanders Toomey Warner The amendment (No. 3805) was agreed to. Amendment No. 3820 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote on amendment No. 3820, offered by the Senator from Arizona, Mr. Flake. The Senator from Arizona.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 26, 2016

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