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On the recordNovember 9, 2017
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Capito). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 87, nays 9, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 269 Ex.] YEAS--87 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--9 Blumenthal Booker Gillibrand Merkley Sanders Schumer Udall Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Menendez Paul Roberts Tester The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 87, the nays are 9. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Nov 9, 2017

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