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On the recordJanuary 16, 2018
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain) and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 60, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 11 Leg.] YEAS--60 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Donnelly Duckworth Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Manchin McCaskill McConnell Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--38 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Coons Cruz Daines Durbin Gardner Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Heller Hirono Kaine Leahy Lee Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--2 McCain Sullivan The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Daines). On this vote, the yeas are 60, the nays are 38. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Cloture having been invoked, the motion to refer with an amendment and the amendments pending thereto fall. The Senator from Ohio. Butch Lewis Act
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