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On the recordJune 13, 2019
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 43, nays 56, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 161 Leg.] YEAS--43 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Lee Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Paul Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--56 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kennedy King Lankford Manchin McConnell McSally Murkowski Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NOT VOTING--1 Alexander The motion was rejected. Vote on Motion to Discharge S.J. Res. 26 The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Scott of Florida). The question is on agreeing to the motion to discharge S.J. Res. 26.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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