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On the recordMay 14, 2015
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy) and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hoeven). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 65, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 180 Leg.] YEAS--65 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Carper Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kirk Lankford Lee McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Warner Wicker Wyden NAYS--33 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cardin Casey Donnelly Durbin Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Stabenow Tester Udall Warren Whitehouse NOT VOTING--2 Cassidy Sullivan The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 65, the nays are 33. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative upon reconsideration, the motion is agreed to. The Senator from New Hampshire. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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