[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 173 (Thursday, October 31, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6323-S6326]
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 LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION, DEFENSE, STATE, FOREIGN 
OPERATIONS, AND ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2020--
                           Motion to Proceed

  Mr. LEE. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
resume consideration on the motion to proceed on H.R. 2740.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The Clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 2740) making appropriations for the 
     Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
     Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
     September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah.


                Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act

  Mr. LEE. Madam President, I would like to speak briefly about an 
issue important to me, about an issue important to many Americans, and 
I would like to speak briefly about Senator Durbin's recent request for 
a hearing concerning the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act.
  The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act is a bill that many 
Senators have worked for, for nearly a decade, and it has long been a 
top priority of mine. I have introduced this bill in every single 
Congress, ever since I was first elected to the Senate back in 2010.
  During that time, it has been a subject of widespread debate and 
discussion. There has been a period of time in which a lot of people 
have learned a lot about this area. The debate and the discussion has 
occurred both on the Hill and off the Hill throughout the United 
States.
  Other Members, including Senator Schumer, have sought to pass the 
bill, as I am doing. Whether that passage occurs by unanimous consent 
or through some other form matters less to me than that we get it 
passed, but we do need to get it passed. This year, we have come closer 
to making this important and bipartisan reform a reality, closer than 
we have ever come before at any point over the nearly decade that this 
has gotten a lot of attention.
  In early July, the House of Representatives passed the bill on the 
Suspension Calendar by a wide bipartisan supermajority vote of 365 to 
65. Around that time, I negotiated an agreement with Senator Grassley 
to help advance the bill by adding provisions drawn from the Durbin-
Grassley H-1B reform bill.
  Senator Grassley has for many years, openly and publicly, made it 
known that he had concerns with the bill. I was therefore very pleased 
that we were able to sit down and work out an agreement to address 
those concerns, while keeping the bill narrow and focused on the 
immediate problem that it is trying to solve. That is eliminating the 
country of origin discrimination in our employment green card system. I 
thank Senator Grassley for working with me on that.
  The process by which I have tried to advance this bill through 
Congress has been open, transparent, and straightforward. I have sought 
and continue to seek unanimous consent to pass the bill on the floor. 
If any Member has raised concern about the bill, I have been willing to 
work with them quickly and in good faith to address their concerns.
  That is why, after reaching an agreement with Senator Grassley, I 
also worked with other Members to resolve their concerns. For much of 
the past few months, I simply didn't know who, if anyone else on the 
Democratic side of the aisle, might have had concerns with the bill. We 
were told that there might be holds on the Democratic hotline, but we 
were not told who exactly might be holding the bill, and no one 
approached me with objections.
  I certainly had no reason to think that Senator Durbin would have 
concerns with the bill. As I have explained before, he was a leading 
cosponsor of the bill in a previous Congress. What is more, the only 
substantial difference between the bill he supported and the bill I put 
forward in this Congress is the addition of the amendment that I 
negotiated with Senator Grassley, which is drawn almost entirely from 
provisions of the Durbin-Grassley H1-B reform bill.
  In September, I learned that Senator Durbin did in fact have concerns 
about the bill in this Congress. As I have with other Members and as I 
have expressed the willingness to do with other Members, I am ready and 
willing to work with Senator Durbin in good faith to quickly and 
reasonably resolve any objection he may have, while preserving the 
bipartisan support that this bill has long enjoyed and that it deserves 
to enjoy.
  As I have said before, I don't believe that any further factual 
development concerning this bill is necessary. Indeed at this point, I 
believe a hearing can serve no purpose other than to delay speedy 
action on this important reform and jeopardize our ability to act 
before the end of the year.
  For that reason, I do not support Senator Durbin's calls for a public 
hearing. Every day that we delay action on this bill is another day 
that suffering experienced by immigrants stuck in the green-card 
backlog continues and indeed intensifies. That is precisely why I will 
continue to work to pass this bill at the earliest possible date.
  The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act arguably has wider and 
more bipartisan support than any other immigration bill that has been 
considered in this body in recent years. The reason for that is that it 
is focused on a single, serious, solvable problem that I think we can 
all agree needs to be solved.
  Whatever other reforms you think might need to be made to our 
immigration system, with good reason, we can all agree that America 
should not treat immigrants differently based on their country of 
origin. There is no reason for this bill to become yet another casualty 
to the polarized, partisan divisions that plague immigration policy.
  I look forward to working with Senator Durbin to resolve the concerns 
he may have about this bill. I reiterate that, once again, this is a 
narrowly focused bill, one that focuses on a simple but long-standing 
problem, a problem that subjects some immigrants to needlessly lengthy 
delays for no reason other than their country of origin. This is from a 
bygone era that we shouldn't be perpetuating in this country.
  We need to fix the problem. The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants 
Act would do that, and I encourage all of my colleagues to join me. We 
are almost there, but we need to get it over the finish line.
  Thank you, Mr. President.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Young). The Senator from Georgia.


                               H.R. 2740

  Mr. PERDUE. Mr. President, I rise to talk about the vote we are going 
to have in just a few minutes to appropriate our first appropriations 
bill for this fiscal year, which, by the way, we are already in the 
first month of our new fiscal year.
  We are under a continuing resolution, which we have talked about ad 
nauseam in this body and how damaging that is to our military and how 
expensive it is over the long run. I had breakfast with one of our 
Secretaries in the DOD today, and he told me that just in the Navy 
alone, a continuing resolution this year would cost the Navy almost $5 
billion. That is $50 billion just in one service over the next decade. 
We can do better than this.
  I want to praise Senator Shelby and Senator Leahy, the ranking member 
and the chairman of the Appropriations Committee. They have done their 
job. The subcommittee chairman and ranking members have done their 
jobs. We are ready to vote on these bills, and it comes down to just an 
obstructionist issue about funding the wall versus funding our 
military.
  Just last weekend, President Trump announced that Abu Bakr al-
Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, had been taken off the battlefield by his 
own hand, I might say. This is a win not just for our country but for 
the world in this fight against terrorism.
  As we now know, the world has gotten to be very dangerous--maybe the 
most dangerous in my lifetime--with five threats across five domains. 
We are worried now about places like China, Russia, North Korea, and 
Iran,

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as well as the asymmetric threat of terrorism around the world in over 
five domains--air, land and sea, and now we have to worry about cyber 
and space as well.
  Let's just take a moment and realize that without a strong military, 
this Special Operations op over the weekend would not have been 
possible. Our intelligence community, our special operators, our 
military personnel, all the supply people, all the people involved in 
supporting these people at the tip of the sphere came to bear and 
brought us a victory this week over the No. 1 terrorist in the world.
  Everybody in America should be celebrating this incredible 
achievement by our military. Rather than celebrating, however, our 
friends across the aisle are trying to change the subject in many ways. 
One way is in the U.S. House with the hypocritical approach we are 
seeing right now of denying due process to our President and having a 
vote this week that is a real mockery of the process in itself. There 
is no guarantee of due process to the President in this resolution.
  I believe the Democrats just don't understand how President Trump got 
elected, and they hate it so much, they will not even let him have this 
win relative to taking a major terrorist off the battlefield.
  We must never forget how depraved this gentleman was and their 
ideology really is. These ISIS thugs have been a scourge on that part 
of the world, and they are not going away, by the way. Since 2014, ISIS 
has beheaded two American journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff. 
Let us never forget that these things occurred. They forced women into 
sex slavery, including 26-year-old Kayla Mueller, a humanitarian worker 
who went there to try to do good who was later killed.
  These are the people, under al-Baghdadi's leadership, who set fire to 
a Jordanian pilot--a captured pilot--violating the rules of war. They 
put him in a cage, poured gasoline on him, and lit him on fire alive. 
These are the people who lined up 21 Coptic Christians on a beach in 
Libya and beheaded them in front of a video. They crucified Christians 
across the Middle East for years.
  Al-Baghdadi inspired all of these atrocities. His death brings 
justice to these countless victims. The fight is not over yet. We have 
taken out the leadership. We denied them the territorial caliphate. We 
are now moving to protect the oil so these people will be denied 
resources so they cannot reconstitute again. These people will not go 
away. The ideology has not died. We have just taken their caliphate 
away. We have to continue to do that.
  The current strategy has not changed in Syria. The President has said 
this publicly. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said it 
publicly. We are there to defeat ISIS. We are there to protect Iraq, 
deter Iran, and support our friends in Israel, but we need bipartisan 
support and consistent funding to achieve this bigger mission. That is 
just one of them in one domain. We have others across the world. With 
an ever-growing military capacity in China alone, we have to get 
serious about how we fund, consistently, our U.S. military effort.
  Yet, as I stand here today, we are under a continuing resolution, 
which we know handcuffs our own military and adds hundreds of billions 
of dollars over the next decade to the cost of funding our military. We 
have a CR right now that has us actually spending $4 billion that the 
Department of Defense has already identified that they don't want to 
spend. Yet because of continuing resolution rules, they have to keep 
spending against these obsolete programs and wasting that $4 billion.

  In addition, we are sitting here at the end of October, the first 
month of the fiscal year, and we have not even finalized the 
authorization for our defense because of not being able to work this 
out with the House.
  We have to do that and get to funding right away to fund our 
military. Our men and women in uniform are the best that we have in 
America, and we owe it to them to not drop the ball in this eleventh 
hour to show them that we have their backs. They can do the job, but 
only if we fund them.
  This is a travesty, and right now it is broken down into partisan 
politics, not over defending our country. It puts our national security 
at risk.
  I will give us just one little piece of data here to close this out. 
Over the last 50 years, we disinvested in our military by at least 25 
percent three different times under three Democratic Presidents. That 
is just historical fact; that is not a partisan observation. We did it 
in 1976 to 1980; we did it in the 1990s; we did it in the last 
administration over 8 years. We disinvested in the military by at least 
25 percent.
  We saw the travesty that the military had in terms of readiness in 
January 1, 2017. We saw how bad our readiness was when two-thirds of 
our elite Strike Fighters, FA-18s, in the Navy could not fly. Only 3 of 
our 58 Army brigades could go to war that night. It was a terrible 
position to be in. Under new leadership, we have gotten that readiness 
back, but now we have to rebuild the military that has been burned up 
over the last 20 years fighting terrorism.
  The challenge we have before us right now is to do our No. 1 job, and 
that is to fund and appropriate the Federal Government. Of that, 
discretionary spending is what this is all about. It is only $1.3 
trillion of the $4.6 trillion the Federal Government will totally spend 
this year, but of that, the military, the VA, and all domestic 
discretionary programs make up $1.3 trillion.
  I am advocating today that we take our responsibility seriously to 
fund our military because of the growing threats around the world and 
the damage we see that it does to the efforts of freedom by our friends 
abroad. There is no bigger responsibility we can have than to support 
our men and women in uniform who put their lives on the line every day. 
The best testament of that is this example we just saw of a success in 
Syria, very close to the Turkish border, pulled off through places 
where Russians and Syrian Government and Syrian rebels and Turkish 
soldiers were all in the general vicinity. We pulled off a miraculous 
victory for freedom in the world. Now it is our job to fund defense and 
get on with that. I highly suggest that we take that very seriously.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.
  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, today, the Senate is going to vote on 
whether to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to a package of 
appropriations bills that will include the Senate Defense 
appropriations bill, and the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, 
and Education (Labor-HHS) appropriations bill.
  There are many things in these bills that I support, but I am going 
to strongly urge all Senators to vote no. I am disappointed that the 
majority leadership has taken this step. They bowed to demands by 
President Trump, and that is continuing to delay funding for our 
troops.
  They insist on including in this bill authority for President Trump 
to raid American tax dollars from our military and their families. 
President Trump wants to raid that money to pay for his wall, after he 
had given his solemn word that Mexico would pay for it, and that is not 
acceptable. Because he cannot keep his word, he has already raided $6.2 
billion from the Department of Defense this year alone for his border 
wall.
  He did all of that without congressional approval of either 
Republicans or Democrats. He diverted $2.6 billion from the fiscal year 
2019 Defense Appropriations Act. Then he took another $3.6 billion from 
military construction projects for his southern border wall.
  That money came from projects that would have improved the lives of 
our troops and their families: military schools, childcare centers, and 
improved training facilities, many of which have been damaged by 
hurricanes and other natural disasters.
  On this side, we oppose this bill because we are fighting to protect 
funds that are meant for the women and men of our military and their 
families. We oppose this bill because we stand with those patriotic 
Americans, and we refuse to place the President's failed campaign 
promises on their backs.
  That alone should convince every Member of this Chamber to oppose 
this package. Yet the Labor-HHS appropriations bill that is tied to 
this Defense bill also shortchanges the domestic priorities of the 
American people by stealing even more money to pay for President 
Trump's vanity wall.

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  If all things were equal, the Labor-HHS appropriations bill--our 
largest domestic funding bill--would receive a 3-percent increase in 
fiscal year 2020, but the Republican bill provides less than a 1-
percent increase for Labor-HHS, while the Department of Homeland 
Security's appropriations bill receives a 7-percent increase to cover 
the cost of the President's demand for his wall. It doesn't add up to 
me, and it doesn't add up to most Americans, who broadly oppose 
President Trump's wall.
  If, in the House and Senate, we were to have an up-or-down vote on 
the wall, I suspect it would fail. So now, they are trying to do it 
through a backdoor way--a shortsighted cash grab directed by President 
Trump. This is a bill that fails to cover even the annual costs of 
inflation in public health, Head Start, childcare, special education, 
veterans' training grants, and dozens of other programs that are relied 
upon by the American people. He will cut the veterans programs and he 
will cut the childcare programs to pay for this wall.
  I am also disappointed by the willful spread of misinformation by 
President Trump and the Republican leadership regarding our opposition 
to this bill. They have baselessly accused the Democrats of blocking a 
3.1-percent pay raise for our troops by our opposing this package. That 
is ridiculous.
  Regardless of the action we take in this Chamber, the men and women 
of our military will see a raise in January. No matter what we do, they 
are going to get that raise. This well-deserved raise is based on a 
statutory formula that does not need to be authorized by the 
legislation before us. In fact, neither the House nor the Senate 
Defense appropriations bills contain any provision that is related to a 
pay raise. Reaching a bipartisan-bicameral consensus on a $693 billion 
Defense appropriations bill is hard enough without there being the 
willful and irresponsible spreading of misinformation.
  This campaign of misinformation does not stop there. The Republican 
leadership has even accused the Senate Democrats of holding up aid to 
Ukraine. That would be laughable if it were not for the real-world 
consequences we are seeing play out in Ukraine today. It is the 
Republicans who are holding both military funding and Ukraine aid 
hostage to President Trump's vanity wall. It is the Republicans who 
refuse to bring a bill to the floor unless Congress enables President 
Trump to continue stealing funds from our troops and our military 
families to pay for the wall that he gave his solemn word that Mexico 
would pay for.
  The Senate Democrats have long advocated for aid to Ukraine. We 
insisted it be included in the fiscal year 2020 appropriations bills, 
and we will continue to do so because it is the right thing to do. 
Since 2015, I have personally supported more than $3.3 billion in aid 
for Ukraine. That is a level that far exceeds the President's request.
  These baseless accusations are merely attempts to distract from why 
the Senate Democrats are actually opposing this package. We will not 
stand idly by as President Trump continues to rob our military 
families--using them as his personal piggy bank--for a failed campaign 
promise that he cannot keep. We will not stand idly by as the domestic 
priorities of the American people are shortchanged to pay for some 
unnecessary monument to the President's ego along our southern border.
  We have been down this road before. Just last month, the Republican 
leadership failed to get the votes that were necessary to move these 
bills, but I think it is prudent to remind everyone that this entire 
strategy has been tried before. It failed before, and it will fail 
again--that strategy being the wall over everything, that strategy 
being the wall at all costs no matter how much damage it does to our 
veterans, no matter how much damage it does to our military families, 
and no matter how much damage it does to American children. It is a 
strategy of a wall and a campaign promise over the American people.
  That same strategy drove the country into the longest government 
shutdown in American history earlier this year that cost the taxpayers 
billions of dollars, and they got absolutely nothing in return. 
Incidentally, that was when the Republicans controlled both Chambers of 
Congress, and they still allowed this shutdown. So, if you think this 
failed Republican strategy will work on the second go-around, I have a 
fence for you to paint back at my home in Vermont.
  Everyone here knows there is only one real path forward to our 
reaching agreement on bipartisan bills, and I believe it is time we 
reached that agreement. I have tremendous respect for my good friend 
Chairman Shelby. Look at the bills we just passed overwhelmingly. That 
is because Senator Shelby and I were able to sit down and work on these 
bills, put them together, and do them in a bipartisan way. I have told 
the Secretary of Defense and others that we still have time to do that 
on the Defense appropriations bill. We can do it.
  When we come back next week, we should try again. Let the grownups in 
both parties in this body work on it. We will get it done, but the 
clock is ticking. It is really time to stop the political maneuverings 
and to stop the sloganeering. Let's do real work.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alabama.
  Mr. SHELBY. Mr. President, I rise in the U.S. Senate to fight for 
America's military.
  This past week, our Special Forces eliminated the leader of ISIS and 
his likely successor. Their accomplishments should remind all of us 
that our brave troops always carry out their duties no matter what the 
circumstances. They shouldn't expect anything different from the U.S. 
Congress. Yet they do. They have come to expect that their elected 
leaders will fail to execute the most fundamental of their duties--
funding the government. They don't deserve failure, and they certainly 
shouldn't expect it. They deserve our gratitude, and they deserve our 
unwavering commitment.
  The best way to demonstrate that gratitude and commitment, I believe, 
is by passing an appropriations bill that gives our military what it 
needs. Our men and women in uniform should never find themselves on the 
battlefield, wondering if they will be able to support their families 
back home. They should never wonder if their training needs, support 
requirements, or mission objectives will be held hostage by partisan 
bickering in the Congress. They should never wonder why America's 
adversaries are doubling down on their military investments while 
America is sitting idle.
  I believe the United States must maintain its edge over our 
adversaries. China is escalating its defense spending, which we all 
know. Yet America's military is operating under a continuing 
resolution. That means that our military is having to face tomorrow's 
threats with yesterday's funding levels. That means that our military's 
planning and operations are weighed down with uncertainty.
  That should be unacceptable to all of us, on both sides of the aisle, 
in the U.S. Senate. We have an opportunity to change that today by 
voting to proceed to the fiscal year 2020 Defense appropriations bill. 
What are we talking about here? We are talking about $695 billion in 
total defense funding. That is national security for the United States 
of America. That is an increase of about $20 billion over last year's 
level. This increased funding, among other things, would provide a 3.1-
percent pay increase for our men and women in uniform--the largest in 
10 years. Believe me, they need it. It would continue the development 
of the world's most advanced weapons systems, and we will need them. It 
would increase our investments in hypersonics, 5G technology, 
artificial intelligence, missile defense, and cyber security, and we 
need that. I believe all of this is absolutely essential to maintaining 
America's strategic advantage over our main adversaries and 
competitors--China and Russia. We had better not lose sight of that 
here in the Senate.
  Unfortunately, at the moment, my Democratic colleagues seem more 
focused on scoring political points than ensuring that our military has 
the certainty and the funding it needs to counter our adversaries. They 
have said they will not allow us to fund our military here in the 
Senate until the funding levels for all 12 appropriations bills are 
agreed to with the House. If that defies most Americans' senses of how 
our government works and what is most important, it should.
  My Democratic colleagues want to press the pause button here in the 
Senate. I don't agree with that. I believe

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that we must complete our work, and I believe that most of the 
Democrats want to get this done.
  Foremost, we should certainly complete our work on the Defense bill. 
Funding America's military should be our priority. It should come first 
here in the Senate. Our men and women in uniform don't get to hit the 
pause button, as we do. They don't get to shirk their duties, and 
neither does Congress. We cannot afford additional delay. Our service 
men and women--those troops whom we have entrusted to keep us safe and 
protect our democracy, our country, and our allies--cannot afford 
additional delay. We must not kick the can down the road when it comes 
to America's security and America's military.
  Let's come together. We have done this. Senator Leahy and I worked 
together last year, and for the first time in years, we met the 
deadline. We can do this again. We need the green light here. We need 
to provide the resources that are necessary to maintain the greatest 
fighting force the world has ever known. We should never be second to 
anybody else. Let's show our troops that we can actually get our work 
done here, that we actually care about them.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I yield back all time.
  I ask unanimous consent that the vote start now.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before 
the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

                             Cloture Motion

       We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the 
     provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
     do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to 
     proceed to Calendar No. 140, H.R. 2740, a bill making 
     appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
     Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal 
     year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.
         Richard C. Shelby, Mike Crapo, John Cornyn, Roy Blunt, 
           Thom Tillis, Shelley Moore Capito, Roger F. Wicker, 
           Lisa Murkowski, Mike Rounds, Pat Roberts, John Boozman, 
           Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, John Barrasso, Kevin Cramer, 
           Richard Burr, Mitch McConnell.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
motion to proceed to H.R. 2740, an act making appropriations for the 
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for 
other purposes, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) 
would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), 
the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California 
(Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator 
from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. 
Warren) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 41, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 342 Leg.]

                                YEAS--51

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     McSally
     Murkowski
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--41

     Baldwin
     Blumenthal
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Kaine
     King
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Paul
     Reed
     Rosen
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Bennet
     Booker
     Harris
     Isakson
     Klobuchar
     Moran
     Sanders
     Warren
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 
41. Three-fifths of the Senators having not voted in the affirmative, 
the motion is not agreed to.
  The majority leader.


                          Motion to Reconsider

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I enter a motion to reconsider the 
vote.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered.

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