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On the recordJune 5, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hoeven). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 84, nays 11, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 116 Ex.] YEAS--84 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--11 Gillibrand Harris Hirono Markey Menendez Merkley Peters Sanders Stabenow Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Coons Duckworth Heinrich Isakson McCain The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 84, the nays are 11. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 5, 2018

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