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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other…

On the recordJune 20, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 56, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 107 Leg.] YEAS--56 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kirk Lankford Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--42 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Carper Lee The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Amendment No. 4720 Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I move to table the amendment No. 4720. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion. The motion was agreed to. Amendment No. 4787 to Amendment No. 4685 Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I call up amendment No. 4787. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Kentucky, [Mr.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 20, 2016

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