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On the recordSeptember 17, 2020
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 182 Ex.] YEAS--68 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hyde-Smith Inhofe Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--26 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Gardner Hawley Hoeven Johnson Lankford Lee Loeffler Paul Perdue Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune NOT VOTING--6 Burr Capito Harris Moran Sanders Sinema The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's actions. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 17, 2020

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