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

On the recordApril 19, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 33, nays 64, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 53 Leg.] YEAS--33 Blunt Boozman Capito Cassidy Coats Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Johnson Kirk Lee McConnell Moran Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Sullivan Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--64 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Inhofe Isakson Kaine King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Cruz Perdue Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 33, the nays are 64. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The point of order is sustained, and the amendment falls. Change of Vote
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 19, 2016

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