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On the recordSeptember 11, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), 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 yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 273 Ex.] YEAS--62 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Perdue Peters Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--31 Baldwin Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono King Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Paul Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Booker Harris Klobuchar Roberts Sanders Tillis Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 62, the nays are 31. The motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Pennsylvania.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 11, 2019

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