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On the recordOctober 31, 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. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 82, nays 11, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 340 Leg.] YEAS--82 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy 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 Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--11 Blackburn Braun Cruz Lankford Lee Paul Perdue Romney Sasse Scott (FL) Toomey NOT VOTING--7 Bennet Booker Harris Isakson Klobuchar Sanders Warren The amendment (No. 1141), as modified, was agreed to. =========================== NOTE =========================== October 31, 2019, on page H8697 (first column), the following appeared: The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 31, 2019

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