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On the recordJuly 9, 2018
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. Fischer), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 72, nays 25, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 144 Ex.] YEAS--72 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hyde-Smith Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--25 Barrasso Blunt Booker Boozman Burr Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Flake Gardner Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Lankford Moran Paul Risch Rounds Sasse Scott Thune NOT VOTING--3 Fischer McCain Sullivan The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 72, the nays are 25. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Ohio.
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John Cornyn
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