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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), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner), 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 75, nays 17, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 419 Ex.] YEAS--75 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--17 Baldwin Blumenthal Cantwell Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Booker Burr Harris Isakson Klobuchar Sanders Warner Warren The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 19, 2019

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