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On the recordOctober 1, 2020
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 200 Ex.] YEAS--51 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gardner Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McSally Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--43 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Fischer Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Loeffler McConnell Moran Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NOT VOTING--6 Alexander Graham Harris Lee Rubio Tester The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 43. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 1, 2020

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