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On the recordNovember 30, 2020
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 240 Ex.] YEAS--52 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Jones Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--36 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Peters Reed Rosen Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Wyden NOT VOTING--12 Harris Heinrich Inhofe Loeffler McSally Murray Rubio Sanders Schatz Sinema Warren Whitehous The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 36. The motion is agreed to. The majority leader.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Nov 30, 2020

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