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On the recordSeptember 15, 2020
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 83, nays 13, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 174 Ex.] YEAS--83 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--13 Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Gillibrand Hirono Klobuchar Markey Merkley Murray Schatz Schumer Van Hollen Warren NOT VOTING--4 Capito Coons Harris Sander The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 83, the nays are 13. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 15, 2020

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