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On the recordJuly 31, 2017
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 180 Leg.] YEAS--68 Alexander Barrasso Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Capito Cardin Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--26 Baldwin Bennet Booker Brown Cantwell Carper Coons Cortez Masto Franken Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Kaine King Manchin Markey Murray Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Burr Graham McCain Menendez Merkley Peters The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 68, the nays are 26. The motion is agreed to. The majority leader. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 31, 2017

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