The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Rubio). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 61, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 160 Leg.] YEAS--61 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Cardin Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heinrich Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson King Kirk Leahy McConnell Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--38 Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Coons Cruz Durbin Franken Gillibrand Graham Heitkamp Heller Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Paul Portman Reid Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Warner Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Cotton The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 61, the nays are 38. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Cloture having been invoked, the motion to refer falls. Under the previous order, all postcloture time has expired. Motion to Concur With Amendment No. 5139 Withdrawn Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to withdraw the motion to concur with further amendment.…
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