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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid), the Senator from Vermont…

On the recordJune 8, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 56, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 94 Leg.] YEAS--56 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson King Kirk Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Vitter Wicker NAYS--38 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Graham Mikulski Reid Sanders Toomey Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this motion, the motion is rejected. The Presiding Officer appointed Ms. Collins, Mr. Kirk, Mr. McConnell, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Boozman, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Graham, Mr. Tester, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Reed, Mr. Udall, Mr. Schatz, Ms. Baldwin, Mr.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 8, 2016

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