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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. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 51, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 74 Leg.] YEAS--47 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--51 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Loeffler McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NOT VOTING--2 Gardner Scott (FL) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cotton). Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment was rejected. The amendment (No. 1559) was rejected. Vote on Amendment No. 1558 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question occurs on agreeing to amendment No. 1558.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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