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On the recordJune 10, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Romney). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 116 Leg.] YEAS--79 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rosen Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--18 Barrasso Cassidy Crapo Cruz Enzi Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Moran Paul Risch Romney Rounds Sasse Shelby Toomey NOT VOTING--3 Burr Hyde-Smith Markey The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 10, 2020

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