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On the recordJune 16, 2015
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 26, nays 73, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 213 Leg.] YEAS--26 Alexander Blunt Capito Cassidy Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Gardner Grassley Heller Hoeven Isakson Lankford Lee Moran Paul Perdue Risch Scott Sullivan Tillis Toomey Vitter NAYS--73 Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Coons Cotton Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Inhofe Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Rubio The amendment (No. 1473), as further modified, was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Massachusetts.
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