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On the recordApril 17, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Portman). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 75 Leg.] YEAS--50 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--47 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy 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--3 Duckworth McCain Tillis The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 17, 2018

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