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On the recordMarch 4, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Jones), 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 (Mr. Sasse). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 90, nays 4, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 64 Leg.] YEAS--90 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Loeffler Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--4 Lee Paul Schatz Scott (FL) NOT VOTING--6 Blackburn Cornyn Jones Klobuchar Sanders Warren The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 4, 2020

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