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On the recordMay 20, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Ernst). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 117 Ex.] YEAS--51 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Isakson 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--43 Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Baldwin Booker Gillibrand Inhofe Johnson Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 43. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 20, 2019

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