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On the recordApril 30, 2019
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. McSally). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote? The result was announced--yeas 72, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 83 Ex.] YEAS--72 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--27 Baldwin Booker Cardin Coons Duckworth Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse NOT VOTING--1 Harris The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 30, 2019

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