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On the recordDecember 1, 2017
I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 302 Leg.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--48 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Cochran Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Lee McCain McConnell Moran Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Strange Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young The amendment (No. 1856) was agreed to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Colleagues, we are moving now to final passage. I know of no further amendments to the bill. Amendment No. 1618, as Amended The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will be 2 minutes of debate on amendment No. 1618, as amended. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I yield back our time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time is yielded back for the majority.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon
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Dec 1, 2017

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