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On the recordJune 19, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cramer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 88, nays 11, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 176 Leg.] YEAS--88 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal 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 Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Wicker Young NAYS--11 Carper Gillibrand Harris Klobuchar Markey Merkley Sanders Udall Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Booker The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 88, the nays are 11. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 19, 2019

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