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On the recordFebruary 15, 2018
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 39, nays 60, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 36 Leg.] YEAS--39 Alexander Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Cochran Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Donnelly Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Isakson Johnson Lankford Manchin McConnell Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Scott Shelby Sullivan Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--60 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Feinstein Flake Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Inhofe Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Peters Reed Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 McCain The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 39, the nays are 60. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The Senator from North Carolina. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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