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On the recordDecember 21, 2017
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). The result was announced--yeas 91, nays 8, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 324 Leg.] YEAS--91 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--8 Crapo Cruz Flake Kennedy Lee Paul Risch Sasse NOT VOTING--1 McCain The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 91, the nays are 8. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to and the point of order falls. Vote on Motion to Concur The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to concur.
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