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On the recordMay 11, 2017
I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sasse). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 81, nays 15, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 126 Ex.] YEAS--81 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell Menendez Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--15 Blumenthal Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Markey McCain Merkley Reed Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Udall Warren Whitehouse NOT VOTING--4 Capito McCaskill Murkowski Sullivan The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 81, the nays are 15. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Wyoming.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 11, 2017

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