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On the recordDecember 3, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 76, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 370 Ex.] YEAS--76 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--16 Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Duckworth Durbin Heinrich Hirono Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Schatz Smith Udall Van Hollen Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Booker Gillibrand Harris Klobuchar Rounds Sanders Warren Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 76, the nays are 16. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 3, 2019

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