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On the recordJune 4, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen), 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 82, nays 9, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 135 Ex.] YEAS--82 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--9 Booker Hirono Klobuchar Markey Merkley Reed Schatz Schumer Udall NOT VOTING--9 Alexander Blumenthal Carper Gillibrand Harris Moran Sanders Van Hollen Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 82, the nays are 9. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 4, 2019

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