I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Daines). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 46, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 93 Leg.] YEAS--46 Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Rubio Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--49 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kirk Lankford Lee McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Mikulski Reid Sanders Toomey Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this motion, the motion is rejected. The Senator from Alaska. Motion to Instruct
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