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On the recordJune 3, 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. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 22, nays 69, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 130 Leg.] YEAS--22 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Cornyn Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Isakson Kennedy Lankford Lee Paul Risch Romney Sasse Scott (SC) Shelby Tillis Toomey NAYS--69 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Duckworth Durbin Enzi Feinstein Gardner Gillibrand Graham Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--9 Alexander Booker Capito Harris Hyde-Smith Moran Perdue Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 22, the nays are 69. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 3, 2019

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