The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 58, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 239 Leg.] YEAS--58 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Crapo Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gardner Gillibrand Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Risch Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--41 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Cruz Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford McConnell Moran Paul Perdue Portman Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Strange Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NOT VOTING--1 Cochran The amendment (No. 1553) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Wyoming.
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