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On the recordSeptember 23, 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), the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 82, nays 6, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 294 Ex.] YEAS--82 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Udall Van Hollen Warner Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--6 Brown Casey Gillibrand Markey Merkley Paul NOT VOTING--12 Bennet Booker Graham Harris Isakson Risch Roberts Sanders Tillis Toomey Warren Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 82, the nays are 6. The motion is agreed to. The senior Senator from Tennessee. Ken Burns' ``Country Music''
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 23, 2019

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