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On the recordJanuary 14, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) and the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 3 Leg.] YEAS--50 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McSally Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--43 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Burr Crapo Duckworth Durbin Isakson Moran Perdue The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 43. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I enter a motion to reconsider the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered. The Senator from Washington.
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York
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Jan 14, 2019

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