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On the recordJuly 16, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. McSally). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 4, nays 92, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 207 Ex.] YEAS--4 Cruz Lee Paul Sullivan NAYS--92 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--4 Bennet Gillibrand Harris Sanders The amendment (No. 924) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution of ratification.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 16, 2019

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