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On the recordDecember 3, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), 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 (Ms. McSally). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 88, nays 4, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 374 Ex.] YEAS--88 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murphy Murray Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--4 Gillibrand Hirono Markey Merkley NOT VOTING--8 Booker Harris Isakson Klobuchar Murkowski Rounds Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 88, the nays are 4. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
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