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On the recordApril 23, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 81 Ex.] YEAS--50 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--44 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Donnelly Durbin Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Heitkamp Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Duckworth Feinstein Hirono Isakson McCain Nelson The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 44. The motion is agreed to. The majority leader. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 23, 2018

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