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On the recordJuly 30, 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 Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), 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? The result was announced--yeas 85, nays 5, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 238 Ex.] YEAS--85 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--5 Blumenthal Brown Hirono Markey Wyden NOT VOTING--10 Bennet Booker Cassidy Gillibrand Harris Isakson Klobuchar Paul Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 85, the nays are 5. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 30, 2019

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