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On the recordFebruary 16, 2017
I announce that the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Donnelly) is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 72 Ex.] YEAS--66 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Scott Shaheen Shelby Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--31 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Durbin Franken Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Sanders Schumer Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Cassidy Donnelly McCain The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 66, the nays are 31. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Feb 16, 2017

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