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On the recordJuly 30, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner), 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 57, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 251 Ex.] YEAS--57 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Casey 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 Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--31 Baldwin Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Hassan Heinrich Hirono King Leahy Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Wyden NOT VOTING--12 Bennet Booker Cassidy Gillibrand Harris Isakson Kaine Klobuchar Markey Sanders Warner Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 57, the nays are 31.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 30, 2019

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