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On the recordJune 4, 2015
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 204 Leg.] YEAS--48 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Burr Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kirk Lankford Lee McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--44 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cotton Donnelly Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Alexander Boxer Durbin Graham Heller Moran Rubio Sanders The amendment (No. 1506) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma. Change Of Vote
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada
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Jun 4, 2015

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