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On the recordMay 2, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 45, as follows: The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? [Rollcall Vote No. 94 Leg.] YEAS--53 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Daines Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--45 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford McConnell McSally Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Bennet Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 45. Two-thirds of the Senators being duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the joint resolution on reconsideration fails to pass over the President's veto. The majority leader. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 2, 2019

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