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On the recordMarch 18, 2020
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Gardner) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Boozman). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 75 Leg.] YEAS--50 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--48 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Gardner Scott (FL) The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 50, and the nays are 48. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The amendment (No. 1558) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read the title of the bill for the third time. The bill was ordered to a third reading and was read the third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…
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John Thune
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