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On the recordJune 10, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 59, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 182 Ex.] YEAS--59 Alexander Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--35 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee McConnell Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sanders Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--6 Cochran Graham Kaine McCaskill Moran Scott The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 59, the nays are 35. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas

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