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On the recordDecember 3, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 65, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 303 Ex.] YEAS--65 Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--31 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Coats Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain Moran Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Coburn Cochran Landrieu Rockefeller The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 65, the nays are 31. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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