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On the recordDecember 12, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 22, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 396 Ex.] YEAS--70 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Wicker Young NAYS--22 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Casey Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Markey Menendez Murray Peters Reed Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Booker Burr Duckworth Isakson Klobuchar Paul Sanders Warren The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 12, 2019

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