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On the recordMay 14, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 80, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 92 Leg.] YEAS--80 Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--16 Baldwin Brown Burr Cantwell Durbin Heinrich Hirono Markey Merkley Murray Paul Schatz Tester Udall Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Alexander McSally Sanders Sasse The bill (H.R. 6172), as amended, was passed The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Wisconsin. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 14, 2020

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