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On the recordSeptember 26, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 75, nays 22, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 312 Ex.] YEAS--75 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--22 Baldwin Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Duckworth Ernst Gillibrand Harris Hirono Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Schumer Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Booker Sanders Warren The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 26, 2019

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