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On the recordNovember 7, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Young). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote? The result was announced--yeas 86, nays 2, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 352 Ex.] YEAS--86 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--2 Gillibrand Markey NOT VOTING--12 Booker Braun Cardin Harris Isakson Klobuchar Menendez Moran Perdue Sanders Warren Wyden The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Nov 7, 2019

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