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On the recordDecember 1, 2020
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 58, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 243 Ex.] YEAS--58 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Jones Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--35 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Cardin Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Harris Inhofe Loeffler McSally Sanders Schatz Whitehouse The nomination was confirmed The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. The Senator from South Dakota.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 1, 2020

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