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On the recordJuly 13, 2016
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Scott). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 89, nays 4, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 127 Leg.] YEAS--89 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Coats Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--4 Casey Cassidy Moran Toomey NOT VOTING--7 Cochran Inhofe Roberts Rounds Sessions Shelby Wicker The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. ____________________
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