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On the recordDecember 4, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), 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? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 79, nays 14, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 376 Ex.] YEAS--79 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr 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 Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--14 Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Gillibrand Hirono Klobuchar Markey Merkley Murray Schatz Schumer Smith Van Hollen NOT VOTING--7 Booker Harris Isakson Murkowski Rounds Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 79, the nays are 14. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 4, 2019

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