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On the recordSeptember 22, 2020
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 187 Ex.] YEAS--49 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kennedy Lankford Lee Loeffler McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--44 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Capito Harris Johnson Sanders Stabenow Sullivan Tillis The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 22, 2020

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