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On the recordJune 2, 2020
I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Blackburn). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 75, nays 15, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 105 Ex.] YEAS--75 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hirono Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--15 Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Gillibrand Harris Klobuchar Leahy Merkley Murray Schumer Smith Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--10 Cramer Heinrich Hoeven Markey Rounds Sanders Schatz Stabenow Tester Whitehouse The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 2, 2020

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