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On the recordDecember 19, 2020
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 276 Ex.] YEAS--51 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Booker Boozman Braun Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kelly Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Roberts Romney Rosen Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--36 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--13 Blunt Burr Cruz Enzi Ernst Fischer Harris Loeffler Paul Perdue Portman Risch Rounds The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 19, 2020

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