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On the recordAugust 27, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Jones), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) 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 60, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 194 Ex.] YEAS--60 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Casey Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Lee McCaskill McConnell Moran Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--28 Blumenthal Booker Brown Cardin Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse NOT VOTING--11 Carper Cassidy Crapo Cruz Graham Hirono Jones Leahy Manchin Murkowski Murray The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 60, the nays are 28. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Ohio. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Aug 27, 2018

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