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On the recordSeptember 9, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 77, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 163 Ex.] YEAS--77 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS-- 18 Bennet Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Schatz Schumer Smith Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Baldwin Harris Klobuchar Sanders Stabenow The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 77, the nays are 18. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 9, 2020

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