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On the recordJune 16, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 192 Ex.] YEAS--55 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--37 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--8 Begich Blunt Cochran Graham Harkin Roberts Rubio Vitter The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 55, the nays are 37. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas

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