I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Heinrich), the Sentor from Vermont (Leahy), and the Senator from Vermont (Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 78, nays 14, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 154 Ex.] YEAS--78 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--14 Blumenthal Cortez Masto Gillibrand Harris Hirono Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Rosen Schatz Schumer Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Burr Heinrich Hyde-Smith Leahy Moran Sanders Tillis Toomey The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 78, the nays are 14. The motion is agreed to. The majority leader. ____________________
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