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On the recordOctober 30, 2015
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 64, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 293 Leg.] YEAS--64 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--35 Blunt Boozman Burr Cassidy Coats Corker Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Lee Moran Paul Perdue Portman Risch Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Toomey NOT VOTING--1 Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 64, the nays are 35. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The majority leader. Vote on Motion to Concur With Amendment No. 2750 Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I move to table the motion to concur with the amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion. The motion was agreed to. Vote on Motion to Concur Mr. McCONNELL.…
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John Cornyn
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