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On the recordJune 15, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren), are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 75, nays 23, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 120 Leg.] YEAS--75 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rosen Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--23 Barrasso Cassidy Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Moran Paul Risch Romney Rounds Sasse Scott (FL) Shelby Sullivan Toomey NOT VOTING--2 Markey Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The Senator from Colorado. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 15, 2020

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