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On the recordMay 17, 2018
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), and the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 21, nays 76, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 99 Leg.] YEAS--21 Barrasso Cornyn Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Grassley Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Moran Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott Toomey NAYS--76 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cortez Masto Cotton Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Gardner Gillibrand Graham Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--3 Booker Duckworth McCain The motion was rejected. Mr. WARNER addressed the Chair. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Virginia.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 17, 2018

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