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On the recordFebruary 6, 2017
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Rounds). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 88, nays 3, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 56 Ex.] YEAS--88 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--3 Rubio Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--9 Carper Coons Cruz Feinstein Isakson Murphy Sanders Sessions Warner The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. A quorum is present.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Feb 6, 2017

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