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On the recordDecember 12, 2019
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 39, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 395 Ex.] YEAS--52 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--39 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--9 Booker Burr Duckworth Isakson Klobuchar Paul Sanders Shelby Warren The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 12, 2019

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