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On the recordMay 7, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) 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 64, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 86 Ex.] YEAS--64 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--31 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Cortez Masto Durbin Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Markey Menendez Murray Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Duckworth Graham Isakson McCain Merkley The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 64, the nays are 31. The motion is agreed to. The majority leader. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 7, 2018

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