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On the recordSeptember 8, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Michigan (Mrs. Stabenow) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 83, nays 6, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 158 Ex.] YEAS--83 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Udall Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--6 Hirono Markey Schatz Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--11 Cardin Graham Harris Hoeven Klobuchar Murkowski Murray Perdue Sanders Stabenow Tilli The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 83, the nays are 6. The motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 8, 2020

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