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On the recordSeptember 25, 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 Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Romney). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 302 Leg.] YEAS--54 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--41 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford McConnell McSally Perdue Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Young NOT VOTING--5 Booker Harris Rubio Sanders Warren The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 54) was passed. (The joint resolution, S.J. Res. 54, is printed in the Record of September 26, 2019.) =========================== NOTE =========================== On page S5681, September 25, 2019, first column, the following appears: The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 54) was passed.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 25, 2019

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