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On the recordOctober 4, 2017
I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Gardner). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 212 Ex.] YEAS--62 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--33 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Cochran Cortez Masto Heller McCain Menendez The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 62, the nays are 33. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 4, 2017

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