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John Cornyn: The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) and the Senator from Oklahoma…

On the recordFebruary 12, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Murphy). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 55, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 34 Leg.] YEAS--55 Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--43 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Chambliss Coburn The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Feb 12, 2014

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