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On the recordMay 12, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cruz). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 61, nays 32, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 86 Ex.] YEAS--61 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kennedy King Lankford Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--32 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Merkley Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Alexander Leahy Markey Murray Sanders Sasse Whitehouse The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 12, 2020

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