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On the recordMarch 1, 2018
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sasse). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 85, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 44 Ex.] YEAS--85 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--12 Booker Gillibrand Harris Hirono Markey Menendez Merkley Peters Sanders Schatz Stabenow Warren NOT VOTING--3 Flake McCain Rounds The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 85, the nays are 12. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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