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On the recordDecember 13, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Heitkamp). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 327 Leg.] YEAS--48 Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Franken Gillibrand Hagan Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Merkley Murphy Murray Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--35 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Coats Cochran Collins Cornyn Crapo Cruz Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Isakson Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--17 Blunt Chambliss Coburn Corker Enzi Feinstein Harkin Inhofe Johanns Menendez Mikulski Nelson Portman Rubio Sanders Scott Udall (CO) The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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