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On the recordSeptember 17, 2015
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul) 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 56, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 267 Leg.] YEAS--56 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cardin Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kirk Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schumer Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--42 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey McCaskill Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Paul Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 56, the nays are 42. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The majority whip.
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John Cornyn
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