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On the recordDecember 18, 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), the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 82, nays 10, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 407 Ex.] YEAS--82 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blumenthal 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 Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--10 Bennet Cantwell Gillibrand Hirono Markey Merkley Murray Schatz Schumer Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Booker Harris Isakson Klobuchar Paul Sanders Stabenow Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 82, the nays are 10. The motion is agreed to. The Senate majority whip. Unanimous Consent Agreement--Executive Calendar
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 18, 2019

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