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On the recordMarch 14, 2018
I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 79, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 55 Ex.] YEAS--79 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--19 Blumenthal Booker Cardin Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Kaine Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Sanders Schatz Schumer Udall Van Hollen Warren NOT VOTING--2 Heinrich McCain The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 79, the nays are 19. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 14, 2018

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