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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are…

On the recordJuly 16, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 40, nays 58, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 242 Leg.] YEAS--40 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Cassidy Coats Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--58 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Reid Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Graham Nelson The amendment (No. 2180) was rejected. Amendment No. 2177 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order there will be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote on the Sanders amendment No. 2177. The Senator from Vermont.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 16, 2015

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