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On the recordMay 24, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) and the Senator from Hampshire (Ms. Hassan) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sasse). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 110 Ex.] YEAS--49 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--44 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Cruz Duckworth Flake Hassan Heller McCain Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 44. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 24, 2018

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