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On the recordJuly 30, 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 65, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 260 Leg.] YEAS--65 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Boxer Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson Peters Portman Roberts Rounds Sanders Schatz Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Vitter Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--34 Blumenthal Booker Brown Carper Casey Corker Cotton Crapo Cruz Donnelly Flake Gillibrand Heinrich Lankford Lee Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Paul Perdue Reed Reid Risch Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott Shelby Toomey Udall Warner Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Graham The bill (H.R. 22), as amended, was passed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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