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On the recordDecember 19, 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. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote? The result was announced--yeas 77, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 427 Leg.] YEAS--77 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Udall Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--16 Blackburn Braun Carper Cassidy Cruz Ernst Gillibrand Hawley Johnson Lee Markey Merkley Schumer Toomey Van Hollen Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Booker Harris Isakson Klobuchar Paul Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 77, the nays are 16. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 19, 2019

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