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On the recordAugust 28, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) is necessarily absent. [Rollcall Vote No. 195 Ex.] YEAS--67 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Casey Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--28 Blumenthal Booker Brown Cardin Carper Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse NOT VOTING--4 Cruz Graham Leahy Murkowski The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority whip.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Aug 28, 2018

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