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On the recordSeptember 9, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), 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 yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 263 Ex.] YEAS--54 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--38 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Alexander Booker Graham Harris Roberts Sanders Sinema Tillis The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 38. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Georgia.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 9, 2019

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