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On the recordJune 19, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) and the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 77, nays 21, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 174 Ex.] YEAS--77 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--21 Baldwin Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Casey Duckworth Harris Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Booker Gillibrand The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 19, 2019

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