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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 (Mrs. Blackburn). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 90, nays 8, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 76 Leg.] YEAS--90 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Loeffler Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--8 Blackburn Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Paul Sasse Scott (SC) NOT VOTING--2 Gardner Scott (FL) The bill (H.R. 6201) was passed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, we just passed the bill that came over from the House, and it is on its way to the President. It is a very important first step, which we are calling phase 2.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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