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On the recordSeptember 4, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Rubio). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 83, nays 14, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 201 Ex.] YEAS--83 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--14 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hirono Markey Menendez Merkley Schatz Schumer Warren Whitehouse NOT VOTING--2 Brown Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 83, the nays are 14. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Tennessee. Remembering John McCain
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 4, 2018

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