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On the recordSeptember 11, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), 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 result was announced--yeas 75, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 278 Ex.] YEAS--75 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth 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 Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--18 Baldwin Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cortez Masto Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Udall Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Booker Coons Harris Klobuchar Roberts Sanders Warren The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 11, 2019

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