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On the recordMay 22, 2015
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cotton). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 39, nays 60, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 188 Leg.] YEAS--39 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Donnelly Durbin Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Paul Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warren Whitehouse NAYS--60 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kirk Lankford Lee McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Warner Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Enzi The amendment (No. 1327) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah. Amendment No. 1227
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