I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 80, nays 14, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 196 Ex.] YEAS--80 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons 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 Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--14 Bennet Blumenthal Cantwell Harris Hirono Klobuchar Markey Merkley Murray Smith Stabenow Udall Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Booker Duckworth Gillibrand Heinrich Sanders Young The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
Share
More from Dick Durbin
I secured $1 million in federal funding for Lurie Children’s to help create this community health clinic in Austin and now, that investment comes to life.
Students need to be careful. You can’t go wrong starting with City Colleges and community colleges in your community… I beg my young students in Illinois to start there, and counselors to do their job and discourage kids from getting…
Simply put, no president has the authority to unilaterally demolish and remodel the country’s White House in such a significant manner without congressional approval.
The 129 responses we received made it clear that this legislation will mean shuttering of services, layoffs, and even hospital closures—meaning patients will needlessly suffer.





