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On the recordDecember 18, 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 (Mr. Perdue). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--76 yeas, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 403 Ex.] YEAS--76 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey 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 Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--18 Baldwin Bennet Brown Cantwell Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Markey Merkley Murray Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Booker Harris Isakson Klobuchar Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 76, the nays are 18. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 18, 2019

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