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On the recordSeptember 21, 2020
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), 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 yeas and nays resulted--yeas 65, nays 25, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 184 Ex.] YEAS--65 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Jones Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Tester Thune Toomey Udall Warner Wicker Young NAYS--25 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Coons Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Reed Schatz Schumer Smith Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--10 Capito Graham Harris Johnson Moran Sanders Sinema Stabenow Sullivan Tilli The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 65, the nays are 25. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Louisiana.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 21, 2020

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