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On the recordJanuary 12, 2017
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cassidy). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 17, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 27 Leg.] YEAS--81 Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Murkowski Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--17 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Leahy Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Sanders Tester Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Alexander Moran The bill (S. 84) was passed, as follows: S. 84 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1.…
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