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On the recordMarch 11, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren), are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Romney). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 70 Leg.] YEAS--53 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gardner Gillibrand Harris Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Leahy Manchin Markey McSally Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murray Peters Portman Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--42 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Enzi Fischer Graham Grassley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Loeffler McConnell Moran Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Cruz Klobuchar Murphy Sanders Warren The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 76) passed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 11, 2020

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