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On the recordDecember 3, 2020
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Capito). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 253 Ex.] YEAS--59 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Jones Kelly Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--34 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Rosen Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Burr Harris Inhofe Loeffler Perdue Portman Sanders The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. The Senator from Tennessee. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 3, 2020

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