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On the recordSeptember 17, 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. Cassidy). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 62, nays 32, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 285 Ex.] YEAS--62 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--32 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Alexander Booker Harris Roberts Sanders Warren The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 17, 2019

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