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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), and the Senator…

On the recordSeptember 22, 2015
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 268 Leg.] YEAS--54 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--42 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Collins Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Nelson Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Boxer Murkowski Murray Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Flake). On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 42. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. Vote Explanation <bullet> Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, today the Senate voted on the Pain- Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, H.R. 36.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 22, 2015

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