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On the recordJuly 29, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 76, nays 22, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 147 Ex.] YEAS--76 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--22 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Duckworth Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Menendez Merkley Murray Sanders Schumer Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Cruz Markey The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 76, the nays are 22. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Minnesota.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 29, 2020

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