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John Cornyn: The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs.…

On the recordDecember 9, 2016
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 161 Leg.] YEAS--63 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Cornyn Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Grassley Hatch Heinrich Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Markey McConnell Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rounds Rubio Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--36 Booker Boxer Brown Carper Casey Coons Corker Crapo Cruz Durbin Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Heitkamp Heller Hirono Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Paul Perdue Reid Risch Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Warner Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Cotton The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Dec 9, 2016

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