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On the recordJune 13, 2019
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``nay.'' (Mr. COTTON assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring the vote? The result was announced--yeas 42, nays 57, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 162 Leg.] YEAS--42 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Cruz Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Lee Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Paul Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--57 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kennedy King Lankford Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NOT VOTING--1 Alexander The motion was rejected. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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