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On the recordJuly 23, 2019
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Blackburn). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 32, nays 66, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 222 Leg.] YEAS--32 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Braun Cassidy Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Fischer Grassley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Paul Perdue Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--66 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gardner Gillibrand Graham Harris Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Roberts Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Burr Isakson The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 32 and the nays are 66. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of the amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. The amendment (No. 928) was rejected. Vote on Amendment No. 929 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question occurs on amendment No. 929 offered by the Senator from Kentucky, Mr. Paul.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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