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On the recordJune 27, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), 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 86, nays 8, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 188 Leg.] YEAS--86 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin 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 Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen 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--8 Booker Braun Klobuchar Lee Markey Merkley Paul Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Bennet Gillibrand Harris Rounds Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 86, the nays are 8. The 60-vote threshold having been achieved, the bill, as amended, is passed. The bill (S. 1790), as amended, was passed.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 27, 2019

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