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On the recordMarch 22, 2018
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator form North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator form Arizona (Mr. McCain), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) would have voted ``nay''. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to Vote? The result was announced--yeas 65, nays 32, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 63 Leg.] YEAS--65 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Graham Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--32 Barrasso Booker Cassidy Corker Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Harris Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Markey McCaskill Merkley Paul Perdue Risch Sanders Sasse Sullivan Tillis Warren NOT VOTING--3 Burr McCain Toomey The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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