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On the recordDecember 19, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 64, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 425 Ex.] YEAS--64 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Enzi Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hyde-Smith Jones Kaine King Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rosen Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--29 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Gardner Hawley Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune NOT VOTING--7 Booker Harris Isakson Klobuchar Paul Sanders Warren The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 19, 2019

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