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On the recordMay 20, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Loeffler). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 76, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 98 Ex.] YEAS--76 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Wicker Young NAYS--16 Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Gillibrand Harris Hirono Klobuchar Menendez Merkley Murray Schatz Schumer Stabenow Van Hollen Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Alexander Burr Markey Murkowski Rounds Sanders Warren Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 76, the nays are 16. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 20, 2020

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