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On the recordJune 10, 2019
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 69, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 147 Ex.] YEAS--69 Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Cardin Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley 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 Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--27 Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Gillibrand Hassan Hirono Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Alexander Capito Harris Klobuchar The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's actions. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 10, 2019

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