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On the recordJanuary 24, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Rosen) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 88, nays 8, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 8 Leg.] YEAS--88 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hyde-Smith Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--8 Alexander Booker Cotton Enzi Hoeven Kennedy Lee Toomey NOT VOTING--4 Inhofe Paul Risch Rosen The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. A quorum is present. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I withdraw my motion to proceed to S. 1. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has that right. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, what is the pending business? ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 24, 2019

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