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

On the recordDecember 9, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) and the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 65, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 319 Ex.] YEAS--65 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Udall (NM) Vitter Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--31 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Coburn Cochran Crapo Enzi Fischer Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Thune Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Chambliss Cruz Landrieu Udall (CO) The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 65, the nays are 31. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Dec 9, 2014

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