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On the recordJuly 30, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 22, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 237 Ex.] YEAS--68 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Carper Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--22 Baldwin Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Duckworth Heinrich Hirono Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Reed Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--10 Bennet Booker Cassidy Gillibrand Harris Isakson Klobuchar Paul Sanders Warren The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 30, 2019

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