[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 23, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2865-S2866]
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                          LEGISLATIVE SESSION

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                VETERANS CEMETERY BENEFIT CORRECTION ACT

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
resume legislative session and the clerk will report the House message 
to accompany S. 2372.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       House message to accompany S. 2372, a bill to amend title 
     38, United States Code, to provide outer burial receptacles 
     for remains buried in National Parks, and for other purposes.

  Pending:

       McConnell motion to concur in the amendment of the House to 
     the bill.
       McConnell motion to concur in the amendment of the House to 
     the bill, with McConnell amendment No. 2246 (to the House 
     amendment to the bill), to change the enactment date.
       McConnell amendment No. 2247 (to amendment No. 2246), of a 
     perfecting nature.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, all postcloture time 
is expired.
  The Senator from Texas.


            Vote on Motion to Concur with Amendment No. 2246

  Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I move to table the motion to concur with 
amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to 
concur in the amendment of the House to S. 2372 with further amendment.
  The motion was agreed to.
  Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the remaining 
votes in the series be 10 minutes in length.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                        Vote on Motion to Concur

  The question is on agreeing to the motion to concur in the amendment 
of the House to S. 2372.
  Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, 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 Arizona (Mr. Flake) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. 
McCain).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) 
is necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Gardner). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 92, nays 5, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 106 Leg.]

                                YEAS--92

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey

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     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Harris
     Hassan
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Schumer
     Scott
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--5

     Corker
     Merkley
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Duckworth
     Flake
     McCain
  The motion was agreed to.

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