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On the recordDecember 17, 2018
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``yea''. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Daines). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 82, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 267 Leg.] YEAS--82 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--12 Barrasso Burr Cotton Enzi Kennedy Kyl Murkowski Risch Rounds Sasse Sullivan Toomey NOT VOTING--6 Alexander Cassidy Graham Heller Johnson Tillis The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 82, the nays are 12.…
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John Cornyn
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