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On the recordMarch 9, 2020
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 15, nays 73, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 68 Leg.] YEAS--15 Alexander Blunt Burr Ernst Graham Loeffler Murkowski Perdue Roberts Rubio Sullivan Thune Tillis Wicker Young NAYS--73 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Boozman Braun Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--12 Booker Capito Cassidy Cotton Cruz Harris Hawley Markey Sanders Shelby Toomey Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 15, the nays are 73. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The majority leader. Motion to Reconsider Mr. McCONNELL. Mr.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 9, 2020

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