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On the recordDecember 27, 2012
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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