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On the recordMay 18, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 67, nays 21, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 93 Ex.] YEAS--67 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--21 Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Casey Durbin Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Klobuchar Menendez Merkley Murray Reed Schatz Schumer Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--12 Alexander Brown Burr Cardin Leahy Markey Moran Peters Rounds Rubio Sanders Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 67, the nays are 21. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Iowa is recognized.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 18, 2020

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