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On the recordDecember 12, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 72, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 397 Ex.] YEAS--72 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Murkowski Murphy Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--18 Blumenthal Cantwell Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono King Leahy Markey Merkley Murray Reed Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Udall Wyden NOT VOTING--10 Booker Burr Duckworth Harris Isakson Klobuchar Moran Paul Sanders Warren The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 12, 2019

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