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On the recordMay 8, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), and the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 77, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 102 Ex.] YEAS--77 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Graham Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine King Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--19 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Cruz Daines Grassley Hawley Inhofe Kennedy Lankford Lee Paul Rubio Sanders Sasse Shelby Sullivan Toomey Young NOT VOTING--4 Booker Klobuchar Murkowski Sinema 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 action. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 8, 2019

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