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On the recordDecember 19, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill ) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Flake). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 71, nays 21, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 273 Leg.] YEAS--71 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Kyl Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Wyden NAYS--21 Alexander Collins Cotton Cruz Daines Enzi Gillibrand Graham Kennedy Lankford Lee Moran Paul Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Toomey Whitehouse Wicker Young NOT VOTING--8 Burr Corker Crapo Heller Inhofe Isakson McCaskill Tillis The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 19, 2018

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