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On the recordApril 1, 2019
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Boozman). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 44, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 55 Leg.] YEAS--44 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Capito Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kennedy Lankford Moran Murkowski Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Tillis Wicker Young NAYS--49 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Braun Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Enzi Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Paul Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Burr Cassidy Harris Lee McSally Sullivan Toomey The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 44, and the nays are 49. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. The majority leader is recognized Mr. McCONNELL. I move to reconsider the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered. Cloture Motion The PRESIDING OFFICER.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 1, 2019

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