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On the recordJune 13, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 30, nays 68, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 122 Leg.] YEAS--30 Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Donnelly Graham Grassley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Manchin McConnell Perdue Portman Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--68 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Gillibrand Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Peters Reed Risch Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Duckworth McCain The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Connecticut.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 13, 2018

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