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On the recordDecember 3, 2020
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 61, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 252 Ex.] YEAS--61 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kelly Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--34 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Rosen Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Graham Harris Loeffler Perdue Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 61, the nays are 34. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 3, 2020

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