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On the recordJune 13, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 90, nays 4, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 165 Ex.] YEAS--90 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue 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 Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--4 Duckworth Harris Hirono Warren NOT VOTING--6 Alexander Gillibrand Klobuchar Paul Sanders Whitehouse The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 90, the nays are 4. The nomination is confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's actions.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 13, 2019

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