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On the recordOctober 31, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), Senator from California (Ms. Harris), Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and 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 84, nays 9, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 341 Leg.] YEAS--84 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--9 Blackburn Braun Cruz Johnson Lee Paul Sasse Scott (FL) Toomey NOT VOTING--7 Bennet Booker Harris Isakson Klobuchar Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 84, the nays are 9. The 60-vote threshold having been achieved, the bill, as amended, is passed. The bill (H.R.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 31, 2019

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