I announce that the Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 72, nays 24, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 15 Leg.] YEAS--72 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Enzi Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murray Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--24 Baldwin Booker Brown Carper Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Kaine Leahy Markey Merkley Murphy Paul Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Shaheen Udall Van Hollen Warren NOT VOTING--4 Cantwell Gardner Murkowski Perdue The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 72, the nays are 24. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Idaho. Amendment No. 97
On the recordFebruary 4, 2019
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