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On the recordMay 14, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 11, nays 85, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 91 Leg.] YEAS--11 Blackburn Braun Cruz Daines Kennedy Lee Moran Murkowski Paul Scott (FL) Sullivan NAYS--85 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Loeffler Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--4 Alexander McSally Sanders Sasse The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 11, the nays are 85. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. The amendment (No. 1586) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Dakota. Unanimous Consent Request--s. 849
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 14, 2020

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