[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 222 (Wednesday, December 30, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S7982]
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  WILLIAM M. (MAC) THORNBERRY NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR 
               FISCAL YEAR 2021--VETO--MOTION TO PROCEED

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask that the Chair lay before the 
Senate the veto message on H.R. 6395, and I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. 
Cotton), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Gardner), the Senator from 
South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Georgia (Mrs. Loeffler), 
the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Perdue), and the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Rubio).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Jones) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 80, nays 12, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 290 Leg.]

                                YEAS--80

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Grassley
     Harris
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Manchin
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--12

     Braun
     Cruz
     Hawley
     Kennedy
     Lee
     Markey
     Merkley
     Paul
     Sanders
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Blackburn
     Cotton
     Gardner
     Graham
     Jones
     Loeffler
     Perdue
     Rubio
  The motion was agreed to

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