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On the recordJuly 9, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 82, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 192 Ex.] YEAS--82 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--16 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Harris Hirono Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Gillibrand Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 82, the nays are 16. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 9, 2019

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