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On the recordJuly 17, 2017
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kennedy). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 88, nays 6, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 161 Ex.] YEAS--88 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--6 Booker Gillibrand Harris Markey Sanders Warren NOT VOTING--6 Duckworth Ernst Flake Heller McCain Wicke The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 88, the nays are 6. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Alaska.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 17, 2017

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