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On the recordMay 14, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) and the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Scott of Florida). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 108 Ex.] YEAS--49 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Lee McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--46 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Harris Hassan Heinrich Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Cassidy Gillibrand Hirono Kennedy Rounds The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's actions. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 14, 2019

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