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On the recordMarch 1, 2017
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 76 Ex.] YEAS--62 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--37 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey McCaskill Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Isakson The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 62, the nays are 37. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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