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Harry Reid: I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), and the Senator from…

On the recordMay 9, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 66 Leg.] YEAS--50 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Manchin Menendez Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Vitter Wicker NAYS--42 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heller Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Markey McConnell Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Cornyn Cruz Durbin Kirk McCain McCaskill Sanders Toomey The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 42. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I enter a motion to reconsider the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered. The Senator from Tennessee. Amendment No. 3804 Withdrawn
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada
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May 9, 2016

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