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On the recordOctober 22, 2015
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 32, nays 65, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 282 Leg.] YEAS--32 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Coons Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heller Leahy Lee Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murray Paul Sanders Schumer Sullivan Udall Warren Wyden NAYS--65 Alexander Ayotte Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Donnelly Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Mikulski Moran Murphy Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schatz Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Graham Rubio Vitter The amendment (No. 2564), as modified, was rejected.
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John Cornyn
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