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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) is necessarily absent. I further announce that, if present and voting…

On the recordJuly 9, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) is necessarily absent. I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) would vote ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hoeven). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 81, nays 15, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 229 Leg.] YEAS--81 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Lee McCain McCaskill McConnell Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--15 Booker Brown Cruz Franken Gillibrand Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Paul Reid Sanders Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--4 King Moran Rubio Sasse The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 81, the nays are 15. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 9, 2015

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