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On the recordJanuary 29, 2019
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Blackburn). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 76, nays 22, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 12 Leg.] YEAS--76 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin Markey McConnell McSally Menendez Murkowski Murray Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--22 Baldwin Booker Brown Carper Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Kaine Leahy Merkley Murphy Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Shaheen Udall Van Hollen Warren NOT VOTING--2 Moran Paul The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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