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On the recordJuly 10, 2017
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 97, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 157 Ex.] YEAS--97 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker 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 Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--3 Murkowski Portman Sullivan The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 97, and the nays are 0. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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