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On the recordSeptember 28, 2017
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 208 Ex.] YEAS--55 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--41 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Cortez Masto Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Cochran Menendez Strange Tillis The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 55, the nays are 41. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Nebraska.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 28, 2017

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