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On the recordOctober 6, 2015
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Daines). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 73, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 275 Leg.] YEAS--73 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Lee McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Wicker NAYS--26 Baldwin Booker Boxer Brown Cardin Carper Coons Durbin Franken Gillibrand Hirono Leahy Manchin Markey Merkley Mikulski Nelson Paul Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Portman). On this vote, the yeas are 73, the nays are 26. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The Senator from Texas. Calling for Appointment of a Special Counsel
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John Cornyn
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