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On the recordJune 24, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Heitkamp). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 210 Ex.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--44 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Cochran Johanns Pryor Schatz The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 52, the nays are 44. The motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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