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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 66, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 424 Ex.] YEAS--66 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hyde-Smith Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rosen Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--27 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Capito Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Hawley Hoeven Inhofe Lankford Lee Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis NOT VOTING--7 Booker Harris Isakson Klobuchar Paul Sanders Warren The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 19, 2019

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