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On the recordMay 21, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester), 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 49, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 102 Ex.] YEAS--49 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson 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--45 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Capito Duckworth Hoeven McCain Shaheen Tester The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 45. The motion is agreed to. The majority leader is recognized. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 21, 2018

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