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On the recordDecember 4, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), 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 75, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 378 Ex.] YEAS--75 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--18 Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Schatz Smith Udall Van Hollen Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Booker Harris Isakson Murkowski Rounds Sanders Warren The nomination was agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 4, 2019

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