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On the recordJuly 29, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 248 Leg.] YEAS--79 Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--18 Burr Coburn Cornyn Crapo Cruz Flake Hatch Johnson (WI) Lee McCain Paul Portman Risch Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Toomey NOT VOTING--3 Alexander Roberts Schatz The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 60-vote threshold having been achieved, the bill, H.R. 5021, as amended, is passed. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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