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On the recordMay 22, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), and the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 91, nays 4, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 104 Leg.] YEAS--91 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--4 Lee Merkley Rounds Sanders NOT VOTING--5 Bennet Cardin Duckworth Gardner McCain The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 91, the nays are 4. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
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