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Chuck Schumer: I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue). Are…

On the recordMay 4, 2017
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 121 Leg.] YEAS--79 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Donnelly Duckworth Enzi Feinstein Franken Gardner Gillibrand Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kaine King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--18 Corker Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Heller Kennedy Lee Paul Risch Scott Strange Toomey NOT VOTING--3 Durbin Isakson Sasse The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York
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May 4, 2017

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