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On the recordAugust 1, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), 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 yeas and nays resulted--yeas 67, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 261 Leg.] YEAS--67 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Jones Kaine King Leahy Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Thune Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--27 Bennet Blackburn Braun Carper Cotton Cruz Daines Enzi Fischer Gardner Hawley Johnson Kennedy Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin Paul Risch Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Tester Tillis Toomey NOT VOTING--6 Booker Gillibrand Harris Isakson Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 67, the nays are 27. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Aug 1, 2019

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