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On the recordMarch 9, 2020
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), 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 or change their vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 47, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 67 Leg.] YEAS--47 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Casey Collins Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Jones Kaine King Leahy Loeffler Manchin McSally Murkowski Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rubio Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--44 Baldwin Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Braun Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Coons Cornyn Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Klobuchar Lankford Lee McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Paul Peters Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Shelby Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Wyden NOT VOTING--9 Booker Capito Cassidy Cruz Harris Markey Sanders Toomey Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 47, the nays are 44. Three-fifths of the Senators having been duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The majority leader is recognized. Motion to Reconsider Mr.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 9, 2020

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