I announce that the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 316 Ex.] YEAS--53 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy 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 McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Strange Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--44 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Nelson Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Cochran McCain Murray The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lee). On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 44. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
On the recordDecember 13, 2017
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