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On the recordJanuary 28, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 74, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 11 Leg.] YEAS--74 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Murray Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--19 Baldwin Brown Carper Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kaine Leahy Merkley Murphy Peters Reed Sanders Shaheen Udall Van Hollen Warren NOT VOTING--7 Booker Cramer Harris Hoeven Paul Schatz Tillis The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 74, the nays are 19. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion was agreed to, upon reconsideration. The senior Senator from Mississippi.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 28, 2019

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