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On the recordJune 20, 2024
I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), the Senator from Massachussetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock) are necessarily absent.
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Dick Durbin
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