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On the recordOctober 4, 2017
I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 210 Ex.] YEAS--57 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Strange Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--38 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Duckworth Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Cochran Cortez Masto Heller McCain Menendez The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 57, the nays are 38. The motion is agreed to. The majority whip.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 4, 2017

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