I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 288 Ex.] YEAS--55 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Jones Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Perdue Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--37 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Paul Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Alexander Booker Harris Johnson Klobuchar Roberts Sanders Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 55, the nays are 37. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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