[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 169 (Tuesday, September 29, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5923-S5924]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  UIGHUR INTERVENTION AND GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN UNIFIED RESPONSE ACT OF 
                                  2019

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair lays before the Senate the following 
message from the House.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       Resolved, That the bill from the Senate (S. 178) entitled 
     ``An Act to condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic 
     Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, and calling for an end to 
     arbitrary detention, torture, and harassment of these 
     communities inside and outside China.'', do pass with an 
     amendment.

  Pending:

       McConnell motion to concur in the amendment of the House of 
     Representatives to the bill, with McConnell Amendment No. 
     2652, in the nature of a substitute.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays on the 
pending motion to concur with amendment No. 2652.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.


                Amendment No. 2673 to Amendment No. 2652

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I have a second-degree amendment to the 
motion to concur with amendment No. 2673.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. McConnell], for Mr. Tillis, 
     proposes an amendment numbered 2673 to amendment No. 2652.

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
reading of the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of 
Amendments.'')


                            Motion to Table

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I move to table amendment No. 2673, and 
I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?

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  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), 
and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Moran) would have voted ``nay.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), 
the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 47, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 199 Leg.]

                                YEAS--47

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

                                NAYS--47

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

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Alexander
     Harris
     Moran
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Tester
  The motion was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.

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