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On the recordFebruary 25, 2020
I announce that 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 yeas and nays resulted--yeas 59, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 56 Ex.] YEAS--59 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kennedy King Lankford Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--38 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Hirono Kaine Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Klobuchar Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 59, the nays are 38. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Feb 25, 2020

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