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On the recordAugust 1, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), 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 or change their vote? The result was announced--yeas 23, nays 70, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 260 Leg.] YEAS--23 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Cornyn Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Moran Paul Risch Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (SC) Toomey Young NAYS--70 Alexander Baldwin Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Bennet Booker Gillibrand Harris Isakson Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 23, the nays are 70. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. The amendment (No. 932) was rejected.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Aug 1, 2019

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