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On the recordDecember 19, 2020
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) and the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 61, nays 25, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 279 Ex.] YEAS--61 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Boozman Braun Brown Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Durbin Feinstein Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Peters Reed Roberts Romney Rubio Sasse Schatz Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--25 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Cardin Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Gillibrand Heinrich Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Rosen Sanders Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--14 Blunt Burr Cruz Enzi Ernst Fischer Harris Hirono Loeffler Paul Perdue Portman Risch Rounds The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 61, the nays are 25. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 19, 2020

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