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On the recordDecember 19, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote? The result was announced--yeas 83, nays 9, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 420 Ex.] YEAS--83 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Brown 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 Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--9 Bennet Cantwell Gillibrand Markey Merkley Murray Schumer Stabenow Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Booker Burr Harris Isakson Klobuchar Sanders Warner Warren The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 19, 2019

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