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On the recordNovember 18, 2020
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 237 Ex.] YEAS--49 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Graham Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Loeffler McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--43 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Alexander Feinstein Gardner Grassley Harris Sanders Scott (FL) Whitehouse The nomination was confirmed The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority whip.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Nov 18, 2020

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