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On the recordSeptember 9, 2020
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Romney). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 80, nays 15, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 161 Ex.] YEAS--80 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr 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 Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--15 Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Gillibrand Hirono Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Schatz Schumer Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Alexander Harris Klobuchar Sanders Stabeno The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 80, the nays are 15. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 9, 2020

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