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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. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 67, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 54 Leg.] YEAS--67 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--31 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hirono Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Heinrich McCain The bill (S. 2155), as amended, was passed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 14, 2018

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