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On the recordNovember 21, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), 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 yeas and nays resulted--yeas 75, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 364 Leg.] YEAS--75 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rosen Rubio Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--19 Blackburn Braun Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Hawley Inhofe Lee Paul Perdue Risch Romney Rounds Sasse Scott (FL) Tillis Toomey NOT VOTING--6 Booker Cassidy Harris Klobuchar Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 75, the nays are 19. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is yielded back.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Nov 21, 2019

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