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On the recordMay 10, 2018
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), and the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lee). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 91 Ex.] YEAS--52 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--43 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Booker Coons Duckworth McCain Moran The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 43. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 10, 2018

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