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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) is necessarily absent. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are…

On the recordOctober 30, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) is necessarily absent. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 292 Leg.] YEAS--63 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--35 Blunt Boozman Burr Cassidy Coats Corker Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Lee Moran Paul Perdue Portman Risch Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Toomey NOT VOTING--2 Murphy Vitter The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 63, the nays are 35. 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 refer falls. The Senator from Kentucky.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 30, 2015

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