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On the recordMay 19, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), 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 74, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 94 Ex.] YEAS--74 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--20 Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Casey Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Klobuchar Menendez Merkley Murray Reed Schatz Schumer Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Alexander Brown Markey Rounds Sanders Whitehouse The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the President's action. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 19, 2020

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