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On the recordMay 20, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sasse). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 72, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 97 Ex.] YEAS--72 Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins 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 Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--20 Bennet Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Coons Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Klobuchar Menendez Merkley Murray Schatz Schumer Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Alexander Brown Burr Markey Murkowski Rounds Sanders Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 72, the nays 20. The motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 20, 2020

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