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On the recordMarch 10, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. McSally). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 55, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 69 Leg.] YEAS--55 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gardner Gillibrand Harris Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McSally Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--41 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Enzi Fischer Graham Grassley Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Loeffler McConnell Moran Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Cruz Hyde-Smith Sanders Warren The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 10, 2020

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