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On the recordJuly 9, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 83, nays 15, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 194 Ex.] YEAS--83 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--15 Bennet Blumenthal Cantwell Harris Heinrich Hirono Klobuchar Markey Merkley Murray Smith Stabenow Udall Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Gillibrand Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 83, the nays are 15. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 9, 2019

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