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On the recordApril 12, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 74, nays 24, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 72 Ex.] YEAS--74 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--24 Booker Brown Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Markey Merkley Murray Peters Sanders Shaheen Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Duckworth McCain The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 74, the nays are 24. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 12, 2018

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