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On the recordJune 2, 2015
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 43, nays 56, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 200 Leg.] YEAS--43 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Ernst Fischer Grassley Hatch Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson King Kirk McCain McConnell Nelson Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--56 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Graham The amendment (No. 1449) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Senator Leahy be recognized for 3 minutes. Then, I would say to my colleagues, I am going to use my leader time to make a final statement, and then we will be ready for the final vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Vermont.
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John Cornyn
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