I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 23, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 97 Leg.] YEAS--68 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Scott Sessions Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Wicker NAYS--23 Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cruz Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hirono Lee Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Paul Reed Reid Schumer Shaheen Warren Whitehouse NOT VOTING--9 Boxer Coons Durbin Hatch Leahy Mikulski Sanders Warner Wyden The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 68, the nays are 23. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
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