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On the recordFebruary 28, 2018
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 69, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 41 Ex.] YEAS--69 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--29 Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--2 McCain Rounds The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 69, the nays are 29. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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