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On the recordOctober 31, 2017
I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 60, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 256 Ex.] YEAS--60 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Stabenow Strange Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--38 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Tester Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 McCaskill Menendez The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas 60, the nays 38. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 31, 2017

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