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On the recordMay 6, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Boozman). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 95 Ex.] YEAS--51 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Wicker Young NAYS--40 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--9 Booker Gillibrand Harris Isakson Klobuchar Moran Murkowski Rubio Toomey The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 40. The motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 6, 2019

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