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On the recordSeptember 22, 2020
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. McSally). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 189 Ex.] YEAS--52 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Jones Kennedy Lankford Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Thune Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--41 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Capito Harris Johnson Sanders Stabenow Sullivan Tillis The nomination was confirmed.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 22, 2020

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