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On the recordJanuary 11, 2017
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Murkowski). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 47, nays 51, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 16 Leg.] YEAS--47 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Scott Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--51 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Cruz Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Peters Reed Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Feinstein Sessions The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 47, the nays are 51. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The point of order is sustained and the amendment falls. Amendment No. 179 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 11, 2017

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