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On the recordJune 18, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 76, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 170 Ex.] YEAS--76 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--20 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Casey Duckworth Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Van Hollen Warren NOT VOTING--4 Gillibrand Harris Hirono Wyden The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 76, and the nays are 20. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 18, 2019

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