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On the recordAugust 1, 2018
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Ernst). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 14, nays 84, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 177 Leg.] YEAS--14 Booker Capito Cassidy Corker Cruz Heinrich Lee Menendez Paul Rubio Schatz Sullivan Toomey Young NAYS--84 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Sanders Sasse Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Flake McCain The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 3524 There will now be 2 minutes of debate, equally divided, prior to a vote in relation to Baldwin amendment No. 3524. The Senator from Wisconsin.
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John Cornyn
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