I announce that the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Gardner). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 58, nays 39, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 239 Leg.] YEAS--58 Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Daines Donnelly Durbin Ernst Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--39 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Coats Cochran Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Enzi Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Lee McCain McConnell Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Tillis Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Cruz Graham Nelson The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. Amendment No. 2161 Under the previous order, there will be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to Kirk amendment No. 2161. The Senator from Rhode Island.
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