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On the recordDecember 2, 2019
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Jones), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), 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. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 15, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 367 Ex.] YEAS--70 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Perdue Peters Risch Roberts Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Warner Wicker Young NAYS--15 Baldwin Blumenthal Brown Cortez Masto Hirono Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Van Hollen Wyden NOT VOTING--15 Bennet Blunt Booker Gillibrand Graham Harris Jones Klobuchar Portman Rounds Sanders Scott (SC) Toomey Warren Whitehouse The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 2, 2019

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