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On the recordOctober 19, 2017
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 33, nays 66, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 238 Leg.] YEAS--33 Barrasso Boozman Burr Capito Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Paul Portman Risch Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sullivan Thune Tillis Wicker Young NAYS--66 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Harris Hassan Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Reed Roberts Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Tester Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Cochran The amendment (No. 1277) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Wyoming. Amendments Nos. 1553, 1428, 1404, 1429, 1552, 1301, 1561, and 1167 to Amendment No. 1116
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John Cornyn
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