The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Warren). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 59, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 169 Ex.] YEAS--59 Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--35 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk McConnell Moran Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--6 Booker Boozman Cochran Landrieu Lee Udall (CO) The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 59, the nays are 35. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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