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John Cornyn: The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Toomey).…

On the recordMarch 8, 2017
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Toomey). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 83 Leg.] YEAS--59 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--40 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Isakson The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 58) was passed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Mar 8, 2017

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