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On the recordJanuary 16, 2020
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Scott of Florida). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 78, nays 21, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 13 Leg.] YEAS--78 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Loeffler Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--21 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Cassidy Cruz Enzi Fischer Gardner Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Paul Perdue Romney Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Tillis Toomey Young NOT VOTING--1 Inhofe The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 78, the nays are 21. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to, and the point of order falls. 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. The Senator from Iowa.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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