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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), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 71, nays 21, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 413 Leg.] YEAS--71 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Jones Kaine Kennedy King Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--21 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Carper Cassidy Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Gillibrand Hawley Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Paul Risch Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Toomey NOT VOTING--8 Booker Cotton Harris Isakson Klobuchar Sanders Udall Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 71, the nays are 21. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The motion to refer falls. The Senator from Vermont.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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govinfo.gov
Dec 19, 2019

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