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John Cornyn: The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr.…

On the recordApril 24, 2017
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Rounds). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 92, nays 6, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 113 Ex.] YEAS--92 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Stabenow Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--6 Blumenthal Booker Cortez Masto Gillibrand Harris Warren NOT VOTING--2 Flake Shelby The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 92, the nays are 6. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Apr 24, 2017

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