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On the recordJune 16, 2015
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 211 Leg.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Collins Coons Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Peters Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Thune Udall Vitter Warren Wyden NAYS--49 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Ernst Fischer Flake Graham Hatch Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill Nelson Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Tester Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Cloture Motion Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote on the motion to invoke cloture on amendment No. 1463, offered by the Senator from Arizona, Mr. McCain.
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John Cornyn
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