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On the recordMay 13, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono), 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 yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 107 Ex.] YEAS--49 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Collins 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 Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Wicker Young NAYS--43 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Harris Hassan Heinrich Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Booker Brown Burr Gillibrand Hirono Scott (FL) Toomey Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 43. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Pennsylvania.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 13, 2019

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