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On the recordAugust 23, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 24, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 192 Leg.] YEAS--68 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gardner Gillibrand Graham Harris Hassan Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rubio Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--24 Barrasso Boozman Cassidy Cotton Crapo Enzi Ernst Flake Grassley Hatch Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Paul Perdue Risch Rounds Sasse Scott Thune Toomey NOT VOTING--8 Corker Cornyn Cruz Fischer Hirono McCain Murray Schatz The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 68, the nays are 24. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The point of order falls. The Senator from Alabama.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Aug 23, 2018

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