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On the recordJanuary 8, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Donnelly) and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 89, nays 1, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 2 Ex.] YEAS--89 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Sullivan Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--1 Hirono NOT VOTING--10 Alexander Corker Cruz Donnelly Isakson McCain Perdue Roberts Tester Toomey The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 89, the nays are 1. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Texas.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 8, 2018

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