I announce that the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 95, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 188 Leg.] YEAS--95 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--5 McCain Murray Schatz Toomey Udall The amendment (No. 3733) was agreed to. Vote on Amendment No. 3703 The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will now be 2 minutes of debate, equally divided, prior to the vote. The Senator from Louisiana.
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