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On the recordSeptember 17, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), 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 result was announced--yeas 63, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 283 Ex.] YEAS--63 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Wicker Young NAYS--30 Baldwin Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Smith Udall Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Alexander Bennet Booker Harris Roberts Sanders Warren The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 17, 2019

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