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On the recordDecember 4, 2017
I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) 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 59, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 304 Ex.] YEAS--59 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy King Lankford Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--33 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Leahy Markey Menendez Murphy Murray Peters Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse NOT VOTING--8 Corker Graham Hatch Klobuchar Lee Merkley Sanders Wyden The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 59, the nays are 33. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Alaska.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 4, 2017

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