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On the recordJanuary 15, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 57, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 5 Leg.] YEAS--57 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Daines Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gardner Harris Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cramer Crapo Cruz Enzi Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Lee McConnell Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NOT VOTING--1 Gillibrand ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 15, 2019

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