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On the recordApril 18, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cassidy). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 56, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 77 Leg.] YEAS--56 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Casey Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McCaskill Moran Murkowski Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--42 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Coons Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Duckworth McCain The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 56, the nays 42. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I enter a motion to reconsider the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 18, 2018

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