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On the recordJanuary 8, 2020
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber wishing to vote or to change their vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 64, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 5 Ex.] YEAS--64 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Leahy Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--31 Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Schatz Schumer Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Alexander Booker Perdue Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 64, the nays are 31. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 8, 2020

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