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

On the recordJanuary 22, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 75, nays 23, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 18 Leg.] YEAS--75 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--23 Boozman Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Grassley Hatch Heller Inhofe Isakson Lankford Lee McConnell Moran Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Toomey NOT VOTING--2 Graham Reid The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 22, 2015

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