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On the recordMay 7, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 74, nays 24, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 97 Ex.] YEAS--74 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 Graham Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine King Leahy Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--24 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Cruz Daines Gillibrand Grassley Harris Hawley Inhofe Kennedy Klobuchar Lankford Lee Markey Merkley Paul Rubio Sanders Sasse Shelby Toomey Warren Young NOT VOTING--2 Booker Murkowski The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 74, the nays are 24. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 7, 2019

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