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On the recordFebruary 9, 2018
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 71, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 31 Leg.] YEAS--71 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cruz Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--28 Bennet Booker Burr Cantwell Cassidy Corker Crapo Daines Enzi Feinstein Flake Gillibrand Grassley Harris Hirono Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Markey Merkley Paul Risch Sanders Sasse Toomey Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--1 McCain The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader is recognized. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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