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On the recordJune 5, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), 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 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 143 Ex.] YEAS--74 Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--19 Baldwin Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cortez Masto Duckworth Harris Heinrich Hirono Klobuchar Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Schatz Schumer Smith Udall Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Alexander Booker Gillibrand Markey Moran Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Romney). On this vote, the yeas are 74, the nays are 19. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 5, 2019

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