[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 4 (Wednesday, January 6, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S38]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                RECESS SUBJECT TO THE CALL OF THE CHAIR

  Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
stand in recess subject to the call of the chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the Senate stands in recess 
subject to the call of the Chair.
  Thereupon, the Senate, at 11:25 p.m., recessed subject to the call of 
the Chair and reassembled at 12:28 a.m. when called to order by the 
Vice President.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. The majority leader.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I know of no further debate.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. Pursuant to S. Con. Res. 1 and section 17, title 
III, U.S. Code, when the two Houses withdraw from the joint session to 
count the electoral vote for separate consideration of an objection, a 
Senator may speak to the objection for 5 minutes and not more than 
once. Debate shall not exceed 2 hours, after which the Chair will put 
the question: Shall the objection be sustained?
  The clerk will report the objection made in the joint session.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       Objection from Senator Hawley from Missouri and 
     Representative Perry from Pennsylvania, ``We, a U.S. Senator 
     and Member of the House of Representatives, object to the 
     counting of the electoral votes of the State of Pennsylvania 
     on the ground that they were not, under all of the known 
     circumstances, regularly given.''

  The VICE PRESIDENT. The majority leader.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I know of no further debate.


       Vote on Objection to Counting Pennsylvania Electoral Votes

  The VICE PRESIDENT. If there is no further debate, the question is, 
Shall the objection submitted by the gentleman from Pennsylvania, Mr. 
Perry, and the Senator from Missouri, Mr. Hawley, be sustained?
  Is there a sufficient second?
  Mr. THUNE. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll
  The result was announced--yeas 7, nays 92, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 2 Leg.]

                                YEAS--7

     Cruz
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Scott (FL)
     Tuberville

                                NAYS--92

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Braun
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Harris
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Loeffler
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Paul
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young
  The VICE PRESIDENT. On this vote, the yeas are 7, the nays are 92.
  The objection is not sustained.
  The Secretary will notify the House of the action of the Senate, 
informing that body that the Senate is now ready to proceed to Joint 
Session for further count of the electoral vote for President and Vice 
President.
  The majority leader.

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