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On the recordJune 11, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 84, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 154 Ex.] YEAS--84 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Enzi Feinstein Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--12 Durbin Gillibrand Harris Hirono Klobuchar Markey Menendez Sanders Schatz Schumer Van Hollen Warren NOT VOTING--4 Alexander Booker Ernst Fischer The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 84, the nays are 12. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 11, 2019

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