The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy) and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 78, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 179 Leg.] YEAS--78 Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Coons Crapo Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--20 Alexander Coats Corker Cornyn Cotton Cruz Daines Flake Gardner Heller Inhofe Johnson Lee McCain Moran Rubio Sasse Shelby Tillis Toomey NOT VOTING--2 Cassidy Sullivan The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 60-vote threshold having been achieved, the bill, H.R. 644, as amended, is passed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. ____________________
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