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On the recordDecember 20, 2020
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Daines). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 84, nays 5, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 281 Ex.] YEAS--84 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed 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--5 Blumenthal Duckworth Markey Sanders Warren NOT VOTING--11 Alexander Burr Cruz Enzi Fischer Harris Loeffler Paul Perdue Risch Rounds The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 84, the nays are 5. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Texas.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 20, 2020

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