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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Tillis). Are…

On the recordJuly 15, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Tillis). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 86, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 237 Leg.] YEAS--86 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--12 Blunt Crapo Cruz Daines Lee Moran Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Shelby Vitter NOT VOTING--2 Graham Nelson The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 86, the nays are 12. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Amendments Nos. 2243; 2180; 2171; 2082; 2106; 2247, as Modified; 2186; 2100; 2144; 2176; 2241; 2177; 2242; 2130; 2215, as Modified; 2222; 2231; 2188; 2156; 2232; 2256; 2240; 2249 to Amendment No. 2089 The PRESIDING OFFICER.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 15, 2015

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