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On the recordFebruary 12, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), 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 81, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 43 Ex.] YEAS--81 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Burr 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 Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Sasse Schatz Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--12 Booker Brown Cantwell Gillibrand Harris Markey Murray Schumer Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Bennet Heinrich Johnson Klobuchar Rubio Sanders Warren The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Feb 12, 2020

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