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On the recordJuly 18, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), 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 66, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 218 Ex.] YEAS--66 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--26 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Casey Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Markey Merkley Murray Peters Reed Schatz Schumer Smith Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Booker Cortez Masto Harris Isakson Moran Sanders Stabenow Warren 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 action. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 18, 2019

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