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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), and the Senator from…

On the recordJuly 10, 2014
I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 41, nays 56, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 220 Leg.] YEAS--41 Baldwin Begich Bennet Brown Cantwell Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCaskill Merkley Murray Nelson Pryor Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--56 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee Markey McCain McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Warren Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Cardin Mikulski Schatz The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 41, the nays are 56. Three-fifths of the Senators present and voting have not voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 10, 2014

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