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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any…

On the recordDecember 18, 2015
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 73, nays 25, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 338 Leg.] YEAS--73 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Casey Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Donnelly Durbin Ernst Feinstein Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Markey McCain McConnell Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--25 Burr Carper Cassidy Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Fischer Flake King Lankford Lee Manchin McCaskill Menendez Paul Portman Risch Sanders Sasse Sessions Shelby Tester Warner Warren NOT VOTING--2 Boxer Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 73, the nays are 25. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion to waive is agreed to. Motion to Concur The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question now occurs on the motion to concur. There is 2 minutes for debate equally divided. The majority's time is yielded back. The Senator from Maryland.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 18, 2015

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