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On the recordJune 11, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 75, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 186 Leg.] YEAS--75 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Collins Coons Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McConnell Menendez Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--19 Barrasso Blunt Coats Coburn Corker Crapo Cruz Enzi Flake Johnson (WI) Lee Paul Portman Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Wicker NOT VOTING--6 Cochran Graham McCaskill Merkley Moran Scott The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 75, the nays are 19. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The point of order falls. The amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be read a third time.…
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