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On the recordJune 28, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 86, nays 11, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 143 Leg.] YEAS--86 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Isakson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--11 Burr Corker Cotton Flake Heller Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Paul Toomey NOT VOTING--3 Alexander Leahy McCain The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for passage of the bill, the bill, as amended, is passed. The Senator from Kansas. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 28, 2018

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