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On the recordApril 10, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) and the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) are necessarily absent. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber wishing to vote or to change their vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 74 Ex.] YEAS--57 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--41 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono King Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Booker Harris The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 57, the nays are 41. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 10, 2019

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