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On the recordJanuary 6, 2020
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 86, nays 5, as follows: [Rollcall Vote 1 Ex.] YEAS--86 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell 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 Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--5 Gillibrand Harris Merkley Schatz Wyden NOT VOTING--9 Alexander Booker Klobuchar Lee Markey Perdue Sanders Shaheen Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 86, the nays are 5. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Ohio. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jan 6, 2020

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