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On the recordJanuary 30, 2017
I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich) is necessarily absent. (Disturbance in the Visitors' Galleries.) The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sergeant at Arms will restore order in the Senate. The Galleries will remain quiet. The Sergeant at Arms will restore order. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 56, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 34 Ex.] YEAS--56 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--43 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Heinrich The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). On this vote, the yeas are 56, the nays are 43. The motion is agreed to.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 30, 2017

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