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On the recordDecember 21, 2017
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 32, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 325 Leg.] YEAS--66 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Wicker Young NAYS--32 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hirono Klobuchar Lee Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Paul Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Isakson McCain The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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