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On the recordJune 5, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), 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 56, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 140 Ex.] YEAS--56 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Cantwell Capito Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--37 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Alexander Cassidy Duckworth Gillibrand Moran Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 56, the nays are 37. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 5, 2019

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