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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). Are…

On the recordMay 25, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 55, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 86 Leg.] YEAS--55 Alexander Ayotte Bennet Blumenthal Booker Burr Cantwell Carper Casey Coats Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Daines Enzi Ernst Feinstein Flake Franken Gardner Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heller Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Lee Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Risch Rubio Sasse Schumer Shaheen Sullivan Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--43 Baldwin Barrasso Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Capito Cardin Cassidy Cochran Collins Cotton Donnelly Durbin Fischer Gillibrand Graham Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Leahy Manchin McConnell Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Roberts Rounds Schatz Scott Sessions Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Cruz Sanders The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 28) was passed, as follows: S.J. Res. 28 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Secretary of Agriculture relating to ``Mandatory Inspection of Fish of the Order Siluriformes and Products Derived From Such Fish'' (80 Fed. Reg. 75590; December 2, 2015), and such rule shall have no force or effect. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 25, 2016

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