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On the recordMay 11, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 60, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 85 Ex.] YEAS--60 Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kennedy King Lankford Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Warner Wicker Young NAYS--29 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--11 Alexander Cardin Leahy Markey Merkley Murray Rubio Sanders Sasse Toomey Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 60, the nays are 29. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 11, 2020

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