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On the recordFebruary 25, 2019
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 27 Leg.] YEAS--53 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Casey Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--44 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy 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--3 Cramer Murkowski Scott (SC) The PRESIDING OFFICER. As a reminder, expressions of approval or disapproval are not in order. On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 44. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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