I announce that the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono) and the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sasse). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 45 Leg.] YEAS--62 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kirk Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Vitter Warner Wicker NAYS--35 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Coons Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Hirono Reid Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cotton). On this vote, the yeas are 62, the nays are 35. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, upon reconsideration, the motion is agreed to. The Senator from Tennessee.
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