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On the recordDecember 13, 2018
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 45, nays 54, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 265 Leg.] YEAS--45 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Kyl Lankford McConnell Murkowski Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Wicker NAYS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NOT VOTING--1 Tillis The amendment was rejected. The joint resolution, as amended, was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read the third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will now be 2 minutes of debate, equally divided, prior to the vote on passage. The Senator from Vermont.
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John Cornyn
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