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On the recordMay 8, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), 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 result was announced--yeas 72, nays 22, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 101 Ex.] YEAS--72 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine King Leahy Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Wicker Wyden NAYS--22 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Cruz Daines Gillibrand Grassley Harris Hawley Inhofe Kennedy Lankford Lee Markey Merkley Paul Rubio Sasse Shelby Toomey Warren Young NOT VOTING--6 Booker Klobuchar Murkowski Sanders Sinema Whitehouse The nomination was confirmed.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 8, 2019

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