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On the recordFebruary 7, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 19 Leg.] YEAS--68 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gardner Gillibrand Graham Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hyde-Smith Isakson Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Wyden Young NAYS--30 Barrasso Braun Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Hawley Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee McConnell McSally Paul Perdue Risch Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Toomey Whitehouse Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Booker Cassidy The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Feb 7, 2019

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