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On the recordOctober 5, 2017
I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lee). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 75, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 216 Ex.] YEAS--75 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Strange Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--20 Blumenthal Booker Brown Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Harris Hassan Hirono Markey Merkley Peters Sanders Schatz Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Cochran Cortez Masto Heller McCain Nelson The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). On this vote, the yeas are 75, the nays are 20. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from North Dakota.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 5, 2017

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