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On the recordDecember 17, 2020
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Jones) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 273 Ex.] YEAS--52 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 Kelly Kennedy Lankford Lee McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--42 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Enzi Fischer Harris Jones Loeffler Perdue The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 42. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 17, 2020

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