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On the recordDecember 4, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Warren). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 315 Ex.] YEAS--57 Alexander Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (NM) Vitter Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--34 Ayotte Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McCain McConnell Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Wicker NOT VOTING--9 Barrasso Coburn Cochran Cruz Inhofe Landrieu Moran Murphy Udall (CO) The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 57, the nays are 34. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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