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On the recordMay 7, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 79, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 98 Ex.] YEAS--79 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Graham Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--19 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Cruz Daines Grassley Hawley Inhofe Kennedy Lankford Lee Paul Rubio Sanders Sasse Shelby Sullivan Toomey Young NOT VOTING--2 Booker Murkowski The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 79, and the nays are 19. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 7, 2019

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