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On the recordMarch 23, 2020
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Gardner), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hawley). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 78 Leg.] YEAS--49 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 Jones Kennedy Lankford Loeffler McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--46 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono 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 NOT VOTING--5 Gardner Lee Paul Romney Scott of Florida The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 46. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative upon reconsideration, the motion is rejected. ____________________
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John Thune
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