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On the recordMarch 5, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 15, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 65 Leg.] YEAS--81 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--15 Blackburn Braun Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Loeffler Paul Perdue Risch Toomey Change of Vote
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 5, 2020

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