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John Cornyn: The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from South Carolina…

On the recordJanuary 9, 2017
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 14, nays 83, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 3 Leg.] YEAS--14 Crapo Cruz Daines Flake Kennedy Lankford Lee Moran Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott Toomey NAYS--83 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--3 Blunt Graham Tillis The amendment (No. 1) was rejected. Amendment No. 20 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 20 offered by the Senator from Vermont, Mr. Sanders, for the Senator from Hawaii, Ms. Hirono. Who yields time? The Senator from Hawaii.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Jan 9, 2017

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