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On the recordJune 3, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 74, nays 17, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 131 Ex.] YEAS--74 Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Murkowski Murphy Paul Peters Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--17 Baldwin Blumenthal Duckworth Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Klobuchar Markey Merkley Murray Reed Schatz Smith Udall Van Hollen Whitehouse NOT VOTING--9 Alexander Booker Capito Harris Hyde-Smith Moran Perdue Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 74, the nays are 17. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 3, 2019

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