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On the recordJuly 30, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote or to change their vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 250 Leg.] YEAS--63 Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--33 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Hagan Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Landrieu Lee McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Cochran McCain Roberts Schatz The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 63 and the nays are 33. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. ____________________
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