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On the recordJuly 30, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner), 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 yeas and nays resulted--yeas 79, nays 9, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 246 Ex.] YEAS--79 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--9 Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Hirono Murray Schatz Schumer Stabenow Wyden NOT VOTING--12 Bennet Booker Cassidy Gillibrand Harris Isakson Kaine Klobuchar Markey Sanders Warner Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 79, the nays are 9.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 30, 2019

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