[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 117 (Friday, July 24, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5565-S5566]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            HIRE MORE HEROES ACT OF 2015--MOTION TO PROCEED

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the pending business.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 19, H.R. 22, a bill to 
     amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt employees 
     with health coverage under TRICARE or the Veterans 
     Administration from being taken into account for purposes of 
     determining the employers to which the employer mandate 
     applies under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, all time is yielded 
back.
  The question is on agreeing to the motion.
  Mr. McCAIN. 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 legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. 
Blunt), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from 
Tennessee (Mr. Corker), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the 
Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller), 
the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Moran), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), 
the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. 
Coons), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), 
the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Washington 
(Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson), the Senator from 
Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer), are 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 26, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 252 Leg.]

                                YEAS--51

     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Boxer
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Franken
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heitkamp
     Hoeven
     Isakson
     Johnson
     King
     Kirk
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Manchin
     McCain
     McConnell
     Perdue
     Peters
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Schatz
     Sessions
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Whitehouse
     Wicker

                                NAYS--26

     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Casey

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     Cruz
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Lee
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Paul
     Reed
     Reid
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott
     Shelby
     Udall
     Warner
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--23

     Alexander
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Carper
     Coons
     Corker
     Cotton
     Flake
     Gillibrand
     Heller
     Inhofe
     Markey
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Moran
     Murray
     Nelson
     Portman
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Toomey
     Vitter
  The motion was agreed to.

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