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On the recordJune 14, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. (Mr. Sullivan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 35, nays 62, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 123 Leg.] YEAS--35 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Capito Cassidy Corker Crapo Cruz Enzi Ernst Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heller Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee McConnell Moran Paul Perdue Rounds Sasse Scott Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--62 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Daines Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Harris Hassan Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Risch Roberts Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Duckworth McCain Portman The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 35, the nays are 62. The motion is rejected. Cloture Motion Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 14, 2018

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