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On the recordSeptember 29, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 82, nays 6, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 196 Leg.] YEAS--82 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Thune Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--6 Cruz Hawley Lee Loeffler Paul Toomey NOT VOTING--12 Alexander Blackburn Blunt Coons Harris Moran Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Tester Tillis The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 82, the nays are 6. Three-fifths of the Senate duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Illinois. Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 29, 2020

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