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On the recordOctober 30, 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 Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Romney). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 88, nays 5, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 338 Leg.] YEAS--88 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--5 Blackburn Cruz Lee Paul Scott (FL) NOT VOTING--7 Bennet Booker Cassidy Harris Klobuchar Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 88, the nays are 5. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 30, 2019

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