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On the recordMay 23, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 72, nays 25, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 107 Ex.] YEAS--72 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Wicker Young NAYS--25 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Markey Merkley Murray Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Udall Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Duckworth Flake McCain The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 72, the nays are 25. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 23, 2018

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