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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 recordFebruary 27, 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 68, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 59 Leg.] YEAS--68 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--31 Blunt Boozman Burr Cassidy Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Lankford Lee Moran Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Tillis Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING-- 1 Boxer The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 68, the nays are 31. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Cloture having been invoked, the motion to commit falls as inconsistent with cloture. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is yielded back with the exception of 10 minutes for the Senator from Utah, Mr. Lee, or his designee. The Senator from Utah.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Feb 27, 2015

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