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On the recordDecember 17, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 86, nays 8, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 400 Leg.] YEAS--86 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--8 Braun Enzi Gillibrand Lee Markey Merkley Paul Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Booker Harris Isakson Klobuchar Sanders Warren The conference report was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 17, 2019

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