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On the recordJune 28, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 189 Leg.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Paul Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Alexander Barrasso Boozman Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford McConnell McSally Murkowski Perdue Portman Risch Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NOT VOTING--10 Blackburn Blunt Braun Burr Coons Cramer Inhofe Roberts Rounds Scott (FL) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kaine). On this vote, the yeas are 50, and the nays are 40. Under the previous order, the 60-vote threshold having not been achieved, the amendment is not agreed to. The amendment (No. 883) was rejected. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 28, 2019

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