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On the recordMay 7, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 84 Leg.] YEAS--49 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Paul Peters Reed Rosen Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--44 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Loeffler McConnell McSally Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--7 Brown Burr Moran Murray Sanders Schatz Stabenow The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 44. Two-thirds of the Senators being duly chosen and sworn, a quorum being present and not having voted in the affirmative, the joint resolution on reconsideration fails to pass over the veto of the President of the United States. The majority leader. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 7, 2020

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