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On the recordJune 17, 2015
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 84, nays 14, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 214 Leg.] YEAS--84 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--14 Baldwin Brown Casey Cruz Franken Gillibrand Leahy Manchin Markey Merkley Reid Sanders Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Lee Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 84, the nays are 14. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The Senator from Kansas. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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