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On the recordSeptember 25, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), 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 yeas and nays resulted--yeas 73, nays 21, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 308 Ex.] YEAS--73 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Sasse Schatz Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--21 Baldwin Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Duckworth Ernst Gillibrand Hirono Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Schumer Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Bennet Booker Harris Rubio Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 73, the nays are 21. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 25, 2019

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