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On the recordNovember 17, 2020
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``nay,'' the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott) would have voted ``yea,'' and the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Blackburn). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? [Rollcall Vote No. 233 Ex.] YEAS--47 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Loeffler McSally Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--50 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 Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Alexander Grassley Scott (FL The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 47, the nays are 50, and the motion is not agreed to. The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.…
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John Thune
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