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On the recordSeptember 24, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Jones), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 25, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 297 Ex.] YEAS--66 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Toomey Warner Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--25 Baldwin Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen NOT VOTING--9 Blackburn Booker Graham Harris Jones Sanders Tillis Warren Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 66, the nays are 25. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 24, 2019

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