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On the recordJune 20, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 178 Leg.] YEAS--53 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Graham Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--45 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford McConnell McSally Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Gillibrand Rounds The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 38) was passed, as follows: S.J. Res.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 20, 2019

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