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On the recordDecember 16, 2020
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cotton). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 56, nays 39, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 270 Ex.] YEAS--56 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kelly Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--39 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Enzi Fischer Harris Loeffler Perdue The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Carolina.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 16, 2020

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