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On the recordOctober 26, 2017
I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 85, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 252 Ex.] YEAS--85 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Capito 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 McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Wicker Young NAYS--12 Booker Brown Cantwell Gillibrand Harris Markey Merkley Murray Peters Sanders Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Heinrich Menendez Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 85, the nays are 12. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 26, 2017

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