[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 103 (Thursday, June 18, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2913-S2917]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
LEGISLATIVE SESSION
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21ST CENTURY ROAD TO HOUSING ACT--Resumed
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the
Senate will resume consideration of the House message to accompany H.R.
6644, which the clerk will report.
The senior assistant executive clerk read as follows:
House message to accompany H.R. 6644, a bill to increase
the supply of housing in America, and for other purposes.
Pending:
Thune motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate
amendment to the bill, with Thune (for Scott (SC)-Warren)
amendment No. 5823 (to the House amendment to the Senate
amendment), in the nature of a substitute.
Thune amendment No. 5824 (to amendment No. 5823), to change
the enactment date.
Thune motion to refer the message of the House to accompany
the bill to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs, with instructions, Thune amendment No. 5825, to
change the enactment date.
Thune amendment No. 5826 (to the instructions (amendment
No. 5825) of the motion to refer), of a perfecting nature.
Thune amendment No. 5827 (to amendment No. 5826), of a
perfecting nature.
recognition of the majority leader
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The majority leader is recognized.
h.r. 6644
Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, this week, the Senate takes a big step
forward on an issue that is important to many Americans, and that is
homeownership.
Whether you read about it in the news or hear about it in
conversation with friends and family members, most people know that the
dream of homeownership is out of reach for too many people in our
country. Limited housing supply and burdensome regulations have
contributed to higher prices, and many Americans are simply being
priced out of the housing market. That is a problem, and it is a
problem we aim to address with the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act.
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act tackles some of the causes of
the higher prices that are preventing too many Americans from realizing
the dream of homeownership.
As much as 25 percent of the cost of building a new single-family
home comes from regulations. That figure rises to 40 percent for
multifamily construction. As you can imagine, that contributes quite a
bit to the price that Americans pay for that home.
So this bill cuts unnecessary redtape that is delaying construction
and driving up prices. For example, it removes the outdated chassis
requirement for manufactured housing, which will not only reduce the
cost of manufactured homes but allow for more innovation in
manufactured home design.
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And then there are the costs and delays associated with the
environmental review process. This bill enables State, local, and
Tribal governments to streamline environmental reviews. It rightsizes
the NEPA process and exempts certain rural housing projects from these
extensive and often burdensome reviews, and it directs the Department
of Housing and Urban Development and the USDA to coordinate joint
environmental reviews for housing projects funded by both Agencies. It
should go without saying that if it is one project, there should be one
review.
And because Federal regulations are only one layer of the costs and
burdens placed on new home construction, this bill also encourages
local governments to reform zoning laws to encourage home construction.
Lifting regulatory burdens will do a lot to bring down housing prices
and encourage more construction, but it is not the only aspect of
encouraging homeownership. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act also
takes meaningful steps to support financing the purchase of a new home.
It lifts regulatory burdens on community banks and credit unions to
ensure that these local lending institutions can be focused on people
rather than paperwork, and it tailors regulations for smaller and new
financial institutions, which will help increase competition that
benefits the American people.
This bill is the result of years of hard work by many of our
colleagues, as well as months of negotiations with our colleagues in
the House. They have worked tirelessly to produce a bill that addresses
some of the barriers to homeownership in this country.
I am grateful for the work of Senators Rounds and Ricketts to support
housing in rural areas, for Senators Moreno and Hagerty's contributions
to the financial institutions component of this bill, and for Senators
Kennedy and Crapo's efforts to support work at the local level to build
more housing.
Thanks to all of their hard work and that of many others, this bill
is almost across the finish line. But no one has been more committed to
the success of this legislation than Chairman Tim Scott, and I am
especially grateful to Chairman Scott for his leadership in getting
this landmark bill on a path to becoming law very soon.
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act is a significant bill to make
life more affordable for hard-working Americans, and it is just the
latest item on Republicans' agenda to address the cost of living.
Last year, Republicans passed the Working Families Tax Cut, another
landmark bill which cut taxes for lower and middle-income Americans.
This year, these hard-working people saw larger tax refunds and larger
paychecks, and I wouldn't be surprised if many of them put some of that
money away to save for their dream of buying a home--a dream that the
ROAD to Housing Act will help put within their reach.
Plus, the Working Families Tax Cut provisions like immediate, 100
percent expensing for investments are also contributing to addressing
housing shortages by making it easier for builders to--well--build.
Our legislation gave a boost to affordable housing construction as
well.
As one realtor in Sioux Falls wrote last year:
Developers now have stronger incentives--and fewer
barriers--to build more affordable units. . . . For Sioux
Falls, where we see steady population growth and a strong
workforce influx, this is a game-changer.
A recent poll shows that the overwhelming majority of Americans see
housing affordability as a major issue, and they want to see Congress
address it. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act does just that. I am
proud that it garners support from a similarly overwhelming majority
here in the Senate, and I expect it will in the House as well.
I look forward to getting this bill through Congress in short order,
sending it to the President's desk, and delivering another major win
for the American people.
I yield the floor.
I suggest the absence of a quorum.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant executive clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order
for the quorum call be rescinded.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so
ordered.
Recognition of the Minority Leader
The Democratic leader is recognized.
Iran
Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, well, everyone who bought Trump's book
``The Art of the Deal'' ought to ask him for a refund because what
Trump has done in Iran is the ``art of the disaster.''
The United States is worse off because of Trump's incompetence, his
ego, his inability to listen to facts. Iran took Trump to the cleaners
with this so-called understanding.
Iran doesn't have to cut off support for its terrorist proxies. Iran
doesn't have to give up ballistic missile production. Iran doesn't have
to make any hard commitments on its nuclear program now, and there is
no guarantee they make any in 60 days. But Iran does get to rake in
billions of dollars in oil sales, hundreds of billions in
reconstruction aid, and God knows how much more in potential fees Trump
may let it impose on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
Not to mention the benefits Iran will get from the sanction relief
that Trump has promised with no idea of what he will get in return.
Again, Iran took Trump to the cleaners. In Iran, ``the art of the
deal'' has turned into the ``art of disaster.''
If Trump wants to send hundreds of billions of dollars to Iran, then
he will need to do it with Republican votes because I will tell you,
Democrats certainly won't be helping Trump send $300 billion to Iran.
Are my colleagues on the other side of the aisle prepared to send
Iran $300 billion when economic needs are so severe here at home? But
that is what Trump wants them to do.
Now, back in 2015, Trump said that America's ``deal with Iran will go
down as one of the most incompetent ever made. The U.S. lost on
virtually every point. We just don't win anymore!''
Trump is eating these words on a silver platter served up by Iran.
Again, in 2015 he said the ``deal with Iran will go down as one of the
most incompetent ever. The U.S. lost on virtually every point. We just
don't win anymore!''
He is eating those words now because those apply so aptly to the deal
that he just announced, so-called understanding, with Iran. He is
eating those words on a silver platter served up by Iran.
Even members of the Trump administration seem to be trying to put
some distance between themselves and this so-called understanding,
telling the public not to read too far into the text and that there are
secret deals in the works. Well, I will tell you right now, Trump needs
to reveal any secret deals to Congress and the public immediately. He
has got to do it right away.
If the secret deals are anywhere near as bad as the understanding we
have seen, we need to know about them.
This war needs to end permanently. Americans need to know how Trump
plans to do it. Crucially, Americans are wondering what they got out of
this war because Trump's blunder has left our country worse off by
every measure. Thirteen Americans have been killed and hundreds more
wounded. The Iranian regime is richer and more radical than before
Trump's war. Iran has greater control over the Strait of Hormuz than
before the war began.
Gas prices are still much higher than before the war, with families
having paid hundreds of dollars extra to fill up their tanks these past
few months.
The cost of everything from groceries to basic household necessities
are higher than before the war as well. Trump's so-called understanding
is the culmination and representation of his ruinous strategy in Iran
since day one and his inability to govern in general.
In Iran and in so much else he does, Trump leads by whim, by ego, by
greed. His strategy doesn't work in the time of peace, and it certainly
doesn't work in the time of war.
He is about the most incompetent President we have ever seen. In
Iran, as in everything, the American people pay the price for Trump's
incompetence.
So as I have been saying for months, it is long past time that Trump
end this war, which never should have started in the first place.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Mr. President, on FISA, Trump has made it clear beyond a shadow of a
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doubt that he doesn't care about our national security and cares even
less about reauthorizing FISA. Trump has embarrassed Republicans,
pulled the rug out from under them, and blown up the FISA negotiations
at every step.
Trump has lobbed a grenade into Jay Clayton's nomination. Insisted on
making his personal fixer, his own attack dog, Bill Pulte, the Acting
DNI. And he is demanding to tie FISA to the extreme SAVE Act to attack
Americans' voting rights.
Trump is so hell-bent on taking away Americans' voting rights that he
is willing to put them in danger to do it. Trump would rather have our
intelligence community go after his political opponents than protect
the American people.
Can Trump get any more reckless?
Make no mistake, Donald Trump is holding America's national security
hostage for his own political gain. Republicans can point fingers at
Democrats all they want, but Trump has himself owned up to blocking
FISA.
Here is what he said, this is Donald Trump:
I will not approve FISA . . .
We are canceling the Senate hearing . . .
[B]ill Pulte will remain as the Acting Director of National
Intelligence.
Trump will own any and all consequences that come from his
undermining America's intelligence community and our national security.
H.R. 6644
Mr. President, finally on housing, Donald Trump may show Americans
how government should not function, but our bipartisan housing bill
shows Americans how we should govern. The housing shortage in the
United States is nothing less than an existential threat to the
American dream.
The fact that Democrats and Republicans were able to come together on
the ROAD to Housing at a time of such division shows just how dire
America's housing crisis is today.
Americans feel financially stuck as renting and buying a home keeps
getting more and more expensive and more and more out of reach. One of
the most effective ways to meaningfully lower housing costs for
Americans is to build more, build faster, and build everywhere.
The ROAD to Housing is a crucial first step toward ending the
affordability crisis and ensuring Americans don't have to break the
bank to keep a roof over their head.
The legislation starts to tackle the zoning and permitting
bottlenecks that have slowed construction from one end of this country
to the other. The bill supports new manufactured and modular housing
that makes building cheaper, faster, and easier.
It also advances the effort to convert blighted buildings into new
housing.
Crucially, ROAD to Housing makes sure institutional investors don't
squeeze American families out of buying a home.
Now, let's make no mistake about it--ROAD to Housing isn't the end of
the road; it is just the start.
Congratulations to Senator Warren for her leadership on this bill and
to all my colleagues, both Democrat and Republican, who supported it. I
am pleased we have seized this opportunity to come up with a
reasonable, bipartisan solution to help the American people--
opportunities that have become few and far between thanks to the chaos
coming out of the White House.
This is how Americans want Congress to govern.
I yield the floor.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority whip.
Waiving Quorum Call
Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to waive the
mandatory quorum call with respect to the cloture motion with respect
to the House message to accompany H.R. 6644.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
H.R. 6644
Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I come to the floor today to say that
Republicans believe Americans who work hard and who play by the rules
deserve to have a good life.
Republicans passed the Working Families Tax Cut law to promote the
American dream.
Americans deserve to keep more of what they earn. The Working
Families Tax Cut law put more money into their pockets. It means
financial relief not just tomorrow but today.
Over 60 million Americans benefited from at least 1 of the
Republicans' new tax cuts. Tax refunds were supersized this year. The
Department of Treasury has confirmed that 97 percent of Americans
received a tax cut this year. They went on to point out that the people
who benefited the most were Americans earning less than $200,000 a
year. Republicans cut taxes for working families all across America.
Families can use the money however they want. They can use it to pay
down debt, to cover everyday expenses, or to save for the future.
Every single Democrat in this Chamber--every single one of them--
voted against the Working Families Tax Cut law. Democrats instead voted
to raise taxes by $4 trillion. Had Democrats gotten their way,
everything would cost much more.
Democrats talk about affordability; Republicans delivered. We
delivered more money into the pockets, the purses, and the paychecks of
the American people. For most Americans, this money is for their
families, not for the government.
At the State of the Union, Americans heard the story of a mother who
homeschools two children during the day, and in the evening, she goes
out and waits tables. Her husband operates heavy machinery, and he
works a lot of overtime. The Working Families Tax Cut law was written
for families like theirs. The family is going to take home an extra
$5,000 this year. Why? Well, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and
the expanded child tax credit--all three of those advantages passed in
the Working Families Tax Cut law.
The Working Families Tax Cut law helps families today, and it builds
more opportunities for families tomorrow. And this is only the
beginning. This week, the Senate is going to move to address the cost
of housing.
Buying a home in America costs too much. Building a home in America
takes too long. Everyone from President of the United States to the
mayor of New York City agrees housing is too expensive. Americans who
want to buy a home worry they won't ever be able to afford a home. That
must change.
Today, the median age of first-time home buyers is 38 years old.
Young Americans should not have to wait nearly four decades to buy
their first home.
A headline from USA TODAY illustrates the problem. It says: ``Why is
housing so expensive? There simply aren't enough homes.'' Supply and
demand.
Well, then, what is the reason there aren't enough homes? The reason
is burdensome government regulations.
Regulations account for a quarter of the cost of a new home. This is
the cost of applying for zoning permits from the local government, the
county government, and even the State government. It causes delays and
money expense. There is the cost of studies on environmental impact and
on the impact on traffic. There is the cost of energy efficiency
mandates for home appliances. Then there is the cost of Federal
workplace regulations.
Of course, there is the cost of delay created by all of these
problems, all of these regulations, many of which are duplicative. By
some estimates, regulators add an extra $130,000 to the cost of a home.
Fortunately, we have on the floor this week a solution to unlock the
American dream. It is called the ROAD to Housing Act. Senator Tim Scott
of South Carolina has led the effort.
This bipartisan bill includes dozens of Member-driven policies. It is
going to increase the supply of housing, it will lower the cost of
housing, and it will expand the ability of families to own a home. It
does all of this the right way without imposing one-size-fits-all
Washington mandates.
The American dream should not be regulated out of reach; it should be
within reach for every American willing to work for it. And the Senate
is ready to get the ROAD to Housing Act signed into law.
I yield the floor.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Minnesota.
Ms. SMITH. Mr. President, I ask for consent for 10 minutes prior to
the scheduled vote.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Ms. SMITH. Mr. President, I rise today as the Senate takes the next
important step toward passage of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act.
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This legislation is probably the most important bill Congress has
passed in decades to lower housing costs and boost the construction of
homes for Americans.
We all know that without a safe, comfortable, affordable place to
live, nothing in your life works--not your job, not your family, not
your education, not your health. Our homes are a source of stability
and comfort and dignity, and they give us the freedom and the
opportunity to build the lives we want to live.
Today in America, people are trying to figure out how to afford their
lives and how to hold it together as prices skyrocket and paychecks
aren't keeping up. Millions of people in big cities and small towns and
rural communities that we all represent stretch to pay their mortgage
or make their rent payment. And the American dream of owning your own
home? It feels like a pipe dream to working families. I hear from young
Minnesotans who tell me they can't even imagine a future where they own
their own home.
So why is this happening? There are simply more people who need a
place to live than there are houses that people can afford to rent or
buy. And affordable places to live for people working in low-wage jobs,
for veterans, or for folks living on a fixed income? We don't have
nearly enough places for these people to live.
The result is that the cost of housing is soaring higher and higher.
Over 22 million people in this country are paying more than 30 percent
of their income on rent, which means that they don't have enough money
for the other necessities in their lives. Over 12 million people pay
more than half of their income on rent. In Minnesota alone, there is a
shortage of 100,000 affordable homes.
Home ownership, as we have heard today, is increasingly out of reach.
Mortgage payments are roughly 40 percent higher than they were in 1990,
and that is even after adjusting for inflation. And in the past few
years, the median home price has reached $400,000.
So all of this is why the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act will make
such a difference. This bill will boost housing supply by cutting
redtape and empowering local governments to make it easier and less
expensive to build good places for people to live. It creates
incentives for cities and towns to build more housing. It removes
regulatory barriers to help streamline environmental review and to
speed up construction and make it less expensive. It strengthens
existing programs that help local communities address their housing and
infrastructure needs--especially when it comes to natural disasters.
This bill also takes several important steps to promote high-quality
modular and manufactured housing, including doing away with outdated
chassis requirements for manufactured homes that add thousands of
dollars in costs but no value. And thanks to the important work of
Senator Cortez Masto, this bill will also help preserve and upgrade
manufactured home communities.
Very importantly, this bill cracks down on large institutional
investors who swoop in, make all-cash offers on homes, and then buy up
single-family homes as investments and rent them back to people for a
profit. Out-of-State landlords have gobbled up homes, leaving
properties in disrepair, tenants in the lurch, and jacking up the rent.
For the first time, in this bill, we are banning big private
investors from buying up the American dream of home ownership, because
homes should be for people, not corporations.
But I want to focus for a minute on reforms in this bill to the Rural
Housing Service to preserve over 400,000 very affordable homes in rural
communities. This has been a project I have been working on for quite a
few years, and I am so excited that it is included in this big bill.
You know, I began working on this issue when I first came to the
Senate over 8 years ago, and people in Minnesota were telling me that
they couldn't find an affordable place to live. Businesses were telling
me that housing shortages were making it impossible for them to recruit
talent to their communities. Mayors told me that the housing shortage
was hurting the vitality of their communities. Homebuilders were
telling me it was too complex and expensive to build new homes.
In 2018, Senator Shaheen and I went to work, and we figured out how
the USDA could do a better job of preserving affordable rural housing.
Then, starting in 2022, when I became chair of the Housing
Subcommittee, Senator Mike Rounds and I started to hold hearings that
dug into the challenges that faced the Rural Housing Service at the
USDA.
The Rural Housing Service--a lot of people probably haven't heard of
it, but it has played a vital role across the country for decades in
helping to finance very affordable places for people to live in rural
communities. We are talking about elders living on a fixed income who
want to stay in the places where they raised their families. We are
talking about people living with disabilities and working families,
folks working in low-wage jobs that can't afford a place to live.
Many of these properties built through the Rural Housing Service were
built in the 1960s with the help of Federal mortgages to finance them,
and often, they are literally the only affordable place to call home in
many rural communities.
Today, all these years later, many of these homes are in disrepair,
and the Rural Housing Service is in desperate need of reform and
modernization. So Senator Mike Rounds and I got to work. Our bill, the
Rural Housing Service Reform Act, makes simple, commonsense
improvements.
We cut redtape to make it easier for nonprofits to assume the
mortgages of these properties when the private sector can't manage them
anymore and then go ahead and fix them up and preserve them for low-
income renters for years to come.
It simplifies the foreclosure process to save the government money
and protect tenants so that properties can be transferred to new
owners.
It gives the Rural Housing Service more capacity to work with local
banks on financing and helps them to modernize their computer systems.
Here is what all this work can look like. Last August, I visited the
Maplewood Apartments in Saint Peter, MN, which is a small and wonderful
community in southern Minnesota. Maplewood needed a lot of TLC to be a
decent place for people to live, and so local nonprofits and public
partners joined together to fix it up.
I had a chance to see what this place meant for its residents and one
resident in particular, Lisa Gallegos, who welcomed me to her new home
in Maplewood. Lisa told me about how in her apartment she finally had
the space to be able to focus on her life instead of worrying each
month about how she would make rent.
I have visited so many of these properties and heard from so many of
these residents about how important this is.
So this bill, our Rural Housing Service Reform Act, which will be
included in the larger ROAD to Housing Act, will recreate the success
in Saint Peter across the country, and 400,000 apartments and homes in
rural communities will remain available, high quality, and affordable.
I especially want to thank Mike Rounds, my colleague from South
Dakota, for being such an excellent partner and friend in this work.
I want to thank Senator Shaheen for her work on preserving rural
housing.
I also want to thank the many advocates who helped us put this bill
together. This has been a yearslong labor of love, and with the 21st
Century ROAD to Housing Act, we are going to get it done.
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act will do a lot of good. Of
course, there is always more work to do. There will be more work to
make it possible so that, every day, every American will have a home
that they can afford, but this bill is an incredible step forward.
I want to again thank Senator Scott and Senator Warren and their
staffs for their creativity and diligence and optimism to put this bill
together at a time when Congress needs more bipartisan work.
I also appreciate Representatives Waters and Hill for their
partnerships with the Senate to get this bill done.
Passing the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act will improve people's
lives and help them afford a decent place to live, and that is well
worth our effort.
I yield the floor.
Cloture Motion
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair
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lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will
state.
The bill 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
concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R.
6644, a bill to increase the supply of housing in America,
and for other purposes, with amendment No. 5823.
John Thune, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Katie Boyd
Britt, Pete Ricketts, John Barrasso, Bernie Moreno, Tim
Sheehy, Mike Crapo, Joni Ernst, John Cornyn, Cindy
Hyde-Smith, Jon Husted, Mike Rounds, John Boozman, Jim
Banks, John R. Curtis, Lindsey Graham.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the
mandatory quorum call under rule XXII has been waived.
The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the
motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R.
6644, a bill to increase the supply of housing in America, and for
other purposes, with amendment No. 5823, offered by the Senator from
South Dakota, Mr. Thune, 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. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the
Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) and the Senator from Kentucky
(Mr. McConnell).
Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr.
Hoeven) would have voted ``yea.''
Mr. SCHUMER. I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Ms.
Alsobrooks), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from
Delaware (Ms. Blunt Rochester), the Senator from Illinois (Ms.
Duckworth), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), and the Senator
from Arizona (Mr. Kelly) are necessarily absent.
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 84, nays 8, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 180 Leg.]
YEAS--84
Baldwin
Banks
Barrasso
Blackburn
Blumenthal
Booker
Boozman
Britt
Budd
Cantwell
Capito
Cassidy
Collins
Coons
Cornyn
Cortez Masto
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Curtis
Daines
Ernst
Fetterman
Fischer
Gallego
Gillibrand
Graham
Grassley
Hagerty
Hassan
Hawley
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Hirono
Husted
Hyde-Smith
Justice
Kaine
Kennedy
Kim
King
Klobuchar
Lankford
Lujan
Lummis
Markey
Marshall
McCormick
Merkley
Moody
Moran
Moreno
Murkowski
Murphy
Murray
Ossoff
Padilla
Peters
Reed
Ricketts
Risch
Rosen
Rounds
Sanders
Schatz
Schiff
Schmitt
Schumer
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Sheehy
Slotkin
Smith
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Van Hollen
Warner
Warnock
Warren
Welch
Whitehouse
Wicker
Wyden
NAYS--8
Armstrong
Cruz
Johnson
Lee
Paul
Scott (FL)
Tuberville
Young
NOT VOTING--8
Alsobrooks
Bennet
Blunt Rochester
Duckworth
Durbin
Hoeven
Kelly
McConnell
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 84, the
nays are 8.
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in
the affirmative, cloture on the motion to concur in the House amendment
to the Senate amendment with an amendment numbered 5823 is agreed to.
The motion was agreed to.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Missouri.
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