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On the recordMay 6, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cramer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 83, nays 7, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 82 Ex.] YEAS--83 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Wicker Young NAYS--7 Blumenthal Duckworth Hirono Markey Merkley Van Hollen Wyden NOT VOTING--10 Brown Burr Leahy Moran Murray Sanders Schatz Stabenow Warren Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 83, the nays are 7. The motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Colorado.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 6, 2020

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