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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. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 77, nays 14, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 183 Ex.] YEAS--77 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Brown 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 Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Murkowski Murphy Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--14 Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Gillibrand Hirono Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Schatz Schumer Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--9 Burr Capito Harris Johnson Moran Perdue Sanders Scott (FL) 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 action. The Senator from Arkansas. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 17, 2020

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