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On the recordSeptember 12, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Florida Mr. Nelson) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 205 Ex.] YEAS--63 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Capito Casey Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kennedy Kyl Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Scott Shaheen Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Wicker Young NAYS--34 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Cardin Carper Coons Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reed Sanders Schumer Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Isakson Nelson Toomey The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 63, the nays are 34. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Texas.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 12, 2018

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