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On the recordSeptember 12, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), 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 result was announced--yeas 85, nays 1, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 281 Ex.] YEAS--85 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--1 Paul NOT VOTING--14 Alexander Booker Coons Harris Inhofe Isakson Klobuchar McSally Moran Perdue Roberts Rubio Sanders Warren The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. The Senator from Louisiana.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 12, 2019

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