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On the recordJuly 22, 2020
I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 23, nays 77, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 135 Leg.] YEAS--23 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Cardin Casey Durbin Gillibrand Hirono Klobuchar Leahy Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NAYS--77 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 23, the nays are 77. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. The amendment (No. 1788) was rejected. Vote on Amendment No. 1972, as Modified The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question is on agreeing to the Tester amendment, No. 1972, as modified.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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