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On the recordJuly 31, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), 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 (Mrs. Blackburn). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 254 Ex.] YEAS--50 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe 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--40 Baldwin Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--10 Bennet Booker Burr Coons Gillibrand Harris Isakson Klobuchar Sanders Warren The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 31, 2019

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