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On the recordNovember 19, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Blackburn). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 80, nays 15, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 359 Ex.] YEAS--80 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich 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 Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--15 Bennet Brown Cantwell Cortez Masto Gillibrand Hirono Markey Merkley Murray Rosen Schatz Schumer Stabenow Van Hollen Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Booker Harris Klobuchar Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 80, the nays are 15. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Nov 19, 2019

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