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On the recordMay 21, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 65, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 102 Ex.] YEAS--65 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--28 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Coons Cortez Masto Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Menendez Merkley Rosen Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Alexander Burr Markey Murkowski Murray Rounds Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 65, the nays are 28. The motion is agreed to. The majority leader. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 21, 2020

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