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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 (Mr. Cotton). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 64, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 380 Ex.] YEAS--64 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Jones Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--29 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Cantwell Cardin Cortez Masto Duckworth Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Booker Harris Johnson Murkowski Rounds Sanders Warren The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 4, 2019

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