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On the recordJune 24, 2015
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 76, nays 22, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 220 Leg.] YEAS--76 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Ernst Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Reid Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--22 Barrasso Cassidy Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Fischer Gardner Hoeven Inhofe Lankford Moran Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Vitter NOT VOTING--2 Lee Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). On this vote, the yeas are 76, the nays are 22. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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