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On the recordDecember 16, 2020
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 271 Ex.] YEAS--54 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kelly Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--41 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Enzi Fischer Harris Loeffler Perdue The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 41. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 16, 2020

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