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On the recordJune 10, 2019
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Young). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 75, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 146 Ex.] YEAS--75 Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Burr Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines 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 Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--20 Baldwin Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cortez Masto Duckworth Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Udall Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Alexander Capito Harris Klobuchar Warren The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 10, 2019

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