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On the recordNovember 19, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Brown). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 56, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 285 Ex.] AYES--56 Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Chambliss Hagan Landrieu Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 56, the nays are 40. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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