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On the recordOctober 9, 2018
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Barrasso). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 96, nays 3, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 224 Leg.] YEAS--96 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Kyl Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--3 Burr Lee Schatz NOT VOTING--1 Booker The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Rubio). On this vote, the yeas are 96, the nays are 3. Three-fifths of the Senators having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Cloture having been invoked, the motion to refer amendments pending thereto fall. The Senator from Wyoming.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 9, 2018

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