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On the recordMarch 12, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 50 Leg.] YEAS--66 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--30 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hirono Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Duckworth Heinrich McCain Paul The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 66, the nays are 30. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The Senator from Ohio.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 12, 2018

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