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On the recordDecember 2, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 295 Ex.] YEAS--59 Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--34 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--7 Coburn Cochran Graham Landrieu Murkowski Roberts Rockefeller The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 59, the nays are 34. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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