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John Cornyn: The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake), the Senator from Georgia, (Mr.…

On the recordMarch 6, 2017
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake), the Senator from Georgia, (Mr. Isakson), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan). THE PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote: The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 81 Leg.] YEAS--49 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Strange Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--48 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Flake Isakson Sullivan The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 37) was passed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Mar 6, 2017

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