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On the recordJune 17, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 73, nays 25, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 121 Leg.] YEAS--73 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rosen Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--25 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Cassidy Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Moran Paul Risch Romney Rounds Sasse Scott (FL) Shelby Toomey NOT VOTING--2 Markey Murray The bill (H.R. 1957), as amended, was passed Amendment No. 1618 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the title amendment No. 1618 be considered and agreed to and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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govinfo.gov
Jun 17, 2020

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