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On the recordJanuary 24, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Rosen) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 10 Leg.] YEAS--52 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gardner Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Isakson Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Reed Romney Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--44 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee McConnell McSally Moran Perdue Portman Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NOT VOTING--4 Burr Paul Risch Rosen The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 44. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The Senator from Texas.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 24, 2019

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