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On the recordOctober 21, 2020
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), and the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) are necessarily absent. (Mrs. LOEFFLER assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote? The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 208 Ex.] YEAS--51 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Loeffler McConnell McSally Moran Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--44 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Harris Manchin Murkowski Paul Sinema The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion to table is agreed to. The ruling of the Chair stands. The Senator from Iowa. Biden Tax Plan
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 21, 2020

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