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On the recordDecember 7, 2017
I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Young). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 14, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 311 Leg.] YEAS--81 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rubio Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--14 Booker Cruz Ernst Gillibrand Harris Hirono Lee Markey McCain Merkley Rounds Sanders Sasse Warren NOT VOTING--5 Crapo Flake Franken Paul Toomey The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 123) was passed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 7, 2017

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