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On the recordJune 28, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 38, nays 57, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 142 Leg.] YEAS--38 Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Capito Cardin Cortez Masto Cruz Durbin Flake Gillibrand Grassley Harris Hassan Heinrich Heller Hirono Johnson Kennedy Lee McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Paul Reed Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Sullivan Tester Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse NAYS--57 Baldwin Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Lankford Manchin McConnell Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Thune Tillis Warner Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--5 Alexander Duckworth Leahy Markey McCain The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Blunt). Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Vote on Amendment No. 3134 The question now occurs on agreeing to the Thune amendment No. 3134. The amendment (No. 3134) was agreed to. Vote on Amendment No. 3224 The PRESIDING OFFICER.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 28, 2018

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