I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 90, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 138 Leg.] YEAS--90 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Tester Thune Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--10 Bennet Booker Duckworth Flake Menendez Merkley Murkowski Sullivan Tillis Toomey The resolution (S. Res. 176) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the preamble is agreed to. (The resolution, with its preamble, is printed in the Record of May 24, 2017, under ``Submitted Resolutions.'') The PRESIDING OFFICER.…
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