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On the recordDecember 9, 2016
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Tillis). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 78, nays 21, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 163 Leg.] YEAS--78 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Schatz Scott Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warner Wicker NAYS--21 Boxer Cantwell Durbin Flake Gillibrand Hirono Lee McCain Merkley Murray Paul Reed Reid Sanders Sasse Schumer Sessions Shelby Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Cotton The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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