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On the recordNovember 19, 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 result was announced--yeas 64, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 358 Ex.] YEAS--64 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kennedy Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--31 Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Booker Harris Klobuchar Sanders Warren 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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