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On the recordJune 4, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote? The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 113 Ex.] YEAS--53 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--38 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Leahy Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--9 Burr Klobuchar Markey Sanders Schatz Sinema Smith Tester Warren The nomination was confirmed The PRESIDING OFFICER.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 4, 2020

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