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On the recordOctober 16, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), 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 61, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 321 Ex.] YEAS--61 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kennedy Lankford Lee McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--31 Baldwin Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones King Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Alexander Bennet Booker Harris Isakson Klobuchar Sanders Warren The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
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