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John Cornyn: The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are…

On the recordDecember 18, 2018
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 33, nays 66, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 269 Leg.] YEAS--33 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Fischer Gardner Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Kennedy Kyl McConnell Murkowski Perdue Portman Risch Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey NAYS--66 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cortez Masto Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Flake Gillibrand Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hyde-Smith Johnson Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Peters Reed Roberts Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--1 Graham Division II of amendment No. 4109 was rejected. Vote on Division III of Amendment No. 4109 to Amendment No. 4108 The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will now be 4 minutes of debate equally divided prior to the vote in relation to division III of amendment No. 4109. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arkansas.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Dec 18, 2018

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