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On the recordMay 20, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cramer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 75, nays 17, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 100 Ex.] YEAS--75 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Wicker Young NAYS--17 Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Gillibrand Harris Hirono Klobuchar Menendez Merkley Murray Schatz Schumer Stabenow Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Alexander Burr Leahy Markey Murkowski Rounds Sanders Whitehouse 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 actions. The Senator from Tennessee. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 20, 2020

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