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On the recordJuly 16, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 94, nays 2, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 209 Ex.] YEAS--94 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--2 Lee Paul NOT VOTING--4 Bennet Gillibrand Harris Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 94, the nays are 2. Two-thirds of the Senators voting, having voted in the affirmative, the resolution of ratification is agreed to. The resolution of ratification was agreed to as follows: ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 16, 2019

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