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On the recordMay 8, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), and the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sasse). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 17, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 100 Ex.] YEAS--79 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Graham Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine King Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--17 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Cruz Daines Grassley Hawley Inhofe Kennedy Lankford Lee Rubio Sanders Sasse Shelby Toomey Young NOT VOTING--4 Booker Klobuchar Murkowski Sinema The nomination was confirmed.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 8, 2019

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