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On the recordDecember 2, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 296 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 Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--8 Coburn Cochran Graham Landrieu Levin Murkowski Roberts Rockefeller The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Heitkamp). On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 40. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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