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On the recordMay 18, 2017
I announce that the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 86, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 132 Ex.] YEAS--86 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Scott Shaheen Shelby Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--12 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Duckworth Gillibrand Harris Peters Sanders Schumer Stabenow Warren NOT VOTING--2 Hirono Kaine The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 86, the nays are 12. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 18, 2017

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