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On the recordMay 9, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Donnelly) and the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Hyde-Smith). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 88 Ex.] YEAS--49 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--47 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Donnelly Duckworth Graham McCain The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 47. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 9, 2018

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