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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hoeven).…

On the recordJune 18, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hoeven). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 71, nays 25, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 215 Leg.] YEAS--71 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Wicker NAYS--25 Baldwin Booker Boxer Brown Cardin Cruz Durbin Franken Gillibrand Hirono Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Nelson Paul Reed Reid Sanders Schumer Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Graham Lee McCaskill Scott The bill (H.R. 1735), as amended, was passed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 18, 2015

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