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On the recordFebruary 27, 2017
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 67, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 74 Ex.] YEAS--67 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Wicker Young NAYS--31 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Duckworth Durbin Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Hirono Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1 Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Isakson The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 67, the nays are 31. One Senator responded ``present.'' The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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