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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? The result was announced--yeas 64, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 414 Leg.] YEAS--64 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Jones Kaine King Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Thune Tillis Udall Van Hollen Warner Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--30 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Carper Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Hawley Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Paul Perdue Risch Romney Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Tester Toomey Whitehouse NOT VOTING--6 Booker Harris Isakson Klobuchar Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 64, the nays are 30. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Vote on Motion to Concur The question is on agreeing to the motion to concur.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 19, 2019

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