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On the recordFebruary 10, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), 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 yeas and nays resulted--yeas 46, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 35 Ex.] YEAS--46 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Grassley Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Loeffler McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Wicker Young NAYS--41 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Leahy Manchin Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--13 Bennet Cramer Graham Hoeven Kennedy Klobuchar Markey Paul Sanders Schatz Scott (FL) Toomey Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 46, the nays are 41. The motion is agreed to. The majority leader.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Feb 10, 2020

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