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On the recordJune 18, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono), and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 59, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 166 Ex.] YEAS--59 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--37 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Hassan Heinrich Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Gillibrand Harris Hirono Udall The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 59, the nays are 37. The motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. I ask unanimous consent the Senate stand in recess following the remarks of myself, Senator Collins, and Senator King. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 18, 2019

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