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On the recordSeptember 16, 2020
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Romney). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 178 Executive] YEAS--55 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--42 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Capito Harris Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 55, the nays are 42. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 16, 2020

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