I announce that the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Ernst). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 41, nays 56, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 250 Leg.] YEAS--41 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kirk Lankford McCain Moran Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Sullivan Thune Tillis Vitter Wicker NAYS--56 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Corker Cruz Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Perdue Peters Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Graham Nelson Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 41, the nays are 56. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I enter a motion to reconsider the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered. Mr. McCONNELL.…
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