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

On the recordMarch 16, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Ernst). Are there any Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 37 Leg.] YEAS--48 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kirk Lankford McCain Moran Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--49 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Collins Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heller Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Peters Reed Reid Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Cruz Rubio Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 48, the nays are 49. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I enter a motion to reconsider the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered. The Senator from Texas. Filling the Supreme Court Vacancy
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 16, 2016

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