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On the recordJanuary 11, 2018
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 10 Leg.] YEAS--68 Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Donnelly Duckworth Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Manchin McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Murphy Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Thune Tillis Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--27 Baldwin Brown Cantwell Coons Daines Durbin Gardner Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Leahy Lee Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murray Paul Sanders Schatz Smith Tester Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Alexander Booker Heller McCain Toomey The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Montana. Change of Vote
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 11, 2018

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