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On the recordJune 18, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 168 Ex.] YEAS--52 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--44 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Hassan Heinrich Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse NOT VOTING--4 Gillibrand Harris Hirono Wyden The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 44. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 18, 2019

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