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On the recordFebruary 5, 2019
Madam President, I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass? The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 77, nays 23, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 16 Leg.] YEAS--77 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Murray Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--23 Baldwin Booker Brown Carper Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Kaine Leahy Markey Merkley Murphy Paul Reed Sanders Schatz Shaheen Udall Van Hollen Warren The bill (S. 1), as amended, was passed, as follows: S. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Strengthening America's Security in the Middle East Act of 2019''.…
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