[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Pages 10078-10082]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  NATIONAL SEA GRANT COLLEGE PROGRAM AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2015--Continued

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Tennessee.
  (The remarks of Mr. Alexander and Mr. Corker are printed in today's 
Record during consideration of S. Res. 516.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana.
  (The remarks of Mr. Vitter pertaining to the introduction of S. 3120 
are printed in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills 
and Joint Resolutions.'')
  Mr. VITTER. Thank you, Mr. President.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lee). The Senator from Texas.


                           Zika Virus Funding

  Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, about 24 hours ago our Democratic friends 
filibustered an appropriations bill for $1.1 billion that they 
themselves had said was an emergency, denying mothers pregnant with 
babies potentially like this one depicted here from suffering the 
devastating birth defects associated with microcephaly. You can see the 
shrunken skull associated with a shrunken brain--a devastating impact. 
This is the principal danger of the Zika virus, which heretofore had 
been limited to South America and Central America, places like Puerto 
Rico, sadly, and Haiti. The mosquito that carries this virus is native 
to Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and the southern most parts of the United 
States. So far the only cases--save one recently in Florida--of 
infection from the Zika virus have been from people who traveled to 
those regions and then returned to the United States. As I said, it 
appears there has been one reported case in Florida that has been 
contracted on the mainland of the United States.
  I simply do not understand how the Democratic leader from Nevada and 
his colleagues could turn this public health crisis into a political 
circus. When a pregnant woman contracts Zika, it can cause microcephaly 
like this. Of course, you can imagine, even if you are just a woman of 
childbearing age, the possibility that you might contract Zika--not 
knowing how long that virus remains in your body--would cause 
tremendous anxiety. You can imagine what this devastating birth defect 
does not only to the baby involved but to the families who must 
necessarily support them.
  This condition is tragic. It can cause seizures, intellectual 
disabilities, hearing and vision problems, and developmental delays, 
and of course a premature death. That is the kind of life that awaits 
these children and the families of children born with microcephaly if 
they are fortunate enough to survive. As I mentioned yesterday, it was 
reported that a child with microcephaly was born in Florida. In this 
case, I stand corrected. That was not as a result of a mosquito bite in 
the United States, but rather the mother contracted the virus while in 
Haiti and traveled back to her home in Florida.

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  The simple point is, this is playing with fire. It was just a few 
weeks ago, actually May 23, 2016, when the Democratic leader insisted 
we immediately fund the President's request of $1.9 billion in 
emergency funding. He said:

       Instead of gambling with the health and safety of millions 
     of Americans, Republicans should give our Nation the money it 
     needs to fight Zika and they should do it now. Not next 
     month, not in the fall--now.

  I think the urgency Senator Reid was expressing was felt by all of 
us, but we know there is a right way and a wrong way to appropriate 
money in the U.S. Congress. We have to pass legislation in the Senate, 
we have to pass legislation in the House, and then we have to come 
together in a conference committee to reconcile those differences. It 
is the conference report that is the product of a negotiation between 
the House and the Senate that funded this effort at the level that 
actually passed the Senate just a few short weeks ago. Every single one 
of our Democratic friends voted for funding the Zika crisis at $1.1 
billion. Yet yesterday, all but I believe one of our Democratic 
colleagues then voted against the very funding they said was an 
emergency back at the end of May.
  We know given the warmer weather in the southernmost part of the 
United States and the fact that the mosquito that carries this virus is 
native to the southern part of the United States--we know this risk is 
on our doorstep, and it is really shameful our Democratic colleagues 
put politics ahead of sound public policy.
  Here are some of the excuses they gave, and none of them withstand 
any sort of scrutiny.
  First of all, they said: Well, this doesn't provide enough money, 
even though all of them voted for funding at this level of $1.1 
billion. They know that if in fact the public health needs in the 
country are significant enough that more funding is necessary, there 
will be an opportunity at some point, after due deliberation and 
discussion and appreciation for the nature of the problem and what the 
proper response would be for us to act again--but they already voted 
for funding at this level.
  The next bogus argument is that this is somehow an attack on women's 
health; specifically, on Planned Parenthood. The fact is, there is not 
a word of Planned Parenthood in this bill. You will look in vain for 
the word ``Planned Parenthood'' because it is simply not there. What 
the Appropriations Committee decided to do and what the Senate and 
House working together decided was to direct funding for contraceptive 
birth control purposes to community health centers. It didn't exclude 
Planned Parenthood. In fact, if you are a Medicaid beneficiary, Planned 
Parenthood is a Medicaid provider and you can get those services 
provided at Planned Parenthood.
  The other bogus argument is somehow there are environmental 
protection concerns. Well, the very virus that causes this terribly 
devastating birth defect is carried by mosquitoes. Why in the world 
would our colleagues across the aisle interfere with efforts to try to 
kill more mosquitoes before they cause this sort of devastating birth 
defect? This legislation doesn't erode environmental protections. It 
provides targeted regulatory relief to combat mosquitoes that carry 
this virus for a short period of time by making more insecticides 
available to public health officials like those in Houston I visited 
with recently who said part of their frontline effort to combat this 
virus is to kill mosquitoes, and it has informed the public that if you 
have pooling water in a flower bed or somewhere that can be a breeding 
ground for mosquitoes, you need to be attentive to that and eliminate 
that place where mosquitoes can breed and propagate.
  So there is simply no good reason to deny funding to mothers who are 
worried about the possibility that they may contract the Zika virus 
that results in the devastating birth defects like that exhibited by 
Laura here. That is her name, Laura. She is 3 months old.
  I hope when we come back next week, as the majority leader has said, 
the Democratic colleagues who voted against this emergency funding bill 
they so ardently had insisted upon for so long will have another chance 
to vote. I hope in the interim our friends across the aisle will search 
their souls--really their consciences--and they will have maybe a 
little twinge of regret for having voted to deny the funding for 
development of a vaccine and insect control and for research so we can 
learn more about this virus so we can learn how to combat it more 
effectively. That is what they denied us yesterday. That is what they 
denied women like Laura's mother who need this money so this doesn't 
happen to anybody else's child.
  Mr. President, in just a few moments, we are going to have a chance 
to vote on a fiscally responsible bill to help Puerto Rico better take 
care of its economy. We know the government of Puerto Rico has gotten 
themselves into an impossible situation--$70 billion of debt that its 
government can't repay. We can all think about reasons they shouldn't 
have done that, and obviously it is fiscally responsible to do so, but 
they are in dire financial trouble, and they are going to have some $2 
billion of payments they owe on July 1 to avoid defaulting on the debt.
  I have been here long enough to know what happens when there is a 
fiscal crisis, and Puerto Rico is after all part of the United States. 
Puerto Ricans are American citizens. I have been here long enough to 
know that in an emergency setting with a fiscal financial crisis, one 
of the first things that happens is people will come to Congress and 
say: Can you provide a bailout--a bailout using taxpayer dollars. Well, 
a good thing--maybe the best thing--about the legislation we are 
getting ready to pass, which passed in the House of Representatives, is 
that not one penny of tax dollars is going to be used to deal with this 
financial crisis in Puerto Rico. You can look at the Congressional 
Budget Office score. They scored zero in terms of expenditure of tax 
dollars for bailing out Puerto Rico.
  Some of us have seen ads on television that claim this bill is a 
bailout. Those are run by the very hedge funds that enjoyed the profits 
from investing in Puerto Rican bonds that are going to take a haircut 
because of the restructuring of that debt. Of course they are going to 
try to discourage us from trying to do anything about it, but we 
shouldn't listen to the hedge funds on Wall Street and the people who 
have gotten rich investing in these risky bonds. We ought to do right 
by all American taxpayers and make sure they are protected from a run 
on the Treasury by passing this legislation. As we know, this 
legislation would establish a Federal oversight board that would help 
to restructure their debt and going forward help them get on a fiscally 
responsible path because what our fellow citizens in Puerto Rico need 
most is an economy that is growing, creating jobs and opportunities so 
people can live where they were born, if they want to. They can stay 
there. Many of them have been leaving the island for some time because, 
frankly, it has turned into a fiscal and health-related nightmare.
  I am glad we advanced this bill a little bit earlier today. We need 
to pass it and get it to the President's desk. I realize it is not 
perfect. I know many of us wish we had an opportunity to offer 
amendments and constructive suggestions, but given the timing for both 
the deadline for default on July 1 and the fact that we did not get 
this bill from the House until recently, we are on this constrained 
timeline, which makes it hard, if not impossible, to offer additional 
amendments, but it is important we pass this legislation and get our 
work done.
  We will have a chance to vote on three matters. We will have an 
effort by the Senator from New Jersey to tear down the so-called 
amendment tree so he can offer some additional amendments. Those 
amendments are measures such as eliminating some of the protections 
that I think are necessary to make this bill a better bill.
  Then we are going to have a budget point of order. I talked to the 
chairman of the Budget Committee. He said the budget point of order is 
a technicality because it has more to do with jurisdictional matters 
and not the fact that it

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busts the budget. In fact, this bill doesn't spend a penny--net--of 
Federal taxpayer dollars. Finally, we will have a chance to vote on 
final passage and then get it up to the President's desk.
  I hope our colleagues will work with us. We had 68 votes on the 
earlier vote earlier today. I hope we will have a big vote in favor of 
fiscal responsibility, in favor of legislation that would avoid the 
potential for a taxpayer bailout, and demonstrate that we can simply 
work together on a bipartisan basis to pass good legislation.
  Mr. President, I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Delaware.


                      Tribute to Federal Employees

                    Brian Kuleski and Amalie Zeitoun

  Mr. CARPER. Good afternoon, Mr. President.
  For more than a year now, I have come to the Senate floor on a pretty 
regular basis. One of our colleagues sitting here I think is the 
Presiding Officer's relief, and he has heard me come and talk about 
some of the great work that is being done by some of the 225,000 men 
and women who work for us at the Department of Homeland Security.
  As you know, the Department of Homeland Security is made up of some 
22 component agencies, has more than 220,000 employees all over the 
world. These men and women perform some of the toughest jobs in the 
Federal workforce, including from stopping drugs from crossing our 
borders to protecting our cyber networks from hackers, to securing 
nuclear and radiological materials. The Department of Homeland Security 
has a diverse, complex, and difficult mission. In fact, they have a lot 
of really tough missions. Each and every day tens of thousands of 
Department of Homeland Security employees work quietly and diligently 
behind the scenes to achieve their mission which, at its core, is 
helping to keep 300 million of us in this country safe as we go about 
our daily lives.
  One of the smaller teams within the Department of Homeland Security--
and one that punches above its weight--is called the Domestic Nuclear 
Detection Office. Let me say that again. It is not one we heard of very 
much. It is called the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office. As you might 
imagine, we have an acronym for them. It is called D-N-D-O, but I am 
not going to use that acronym today because I don't like acronyms, 
especially ones that are rarely used. The Domestic Nuclear Detection 
Office has a staff of only 125 people out of the 220,000 that make up 
DHS, but they are responsible for keeping all of us safe from the 
threats posed by radiological and nuclear materials.
  From tracking known radioactive materials to supplying detection 
equipment to Federal, State, and local law enforcement, to conducting 
research and building better detection technologies, the men and women 
at this office play an integral role in our Nation's effort to, No. 1, 
detect radiological materials and, No. 2, to keep them from falling 
into the wrong hands.
  Very shortly we will see to my left some images of just a few of the 
technologies that are used at this agency and also a few of the 
employees who work there as they try to detect and track some of the 
most dangerous materials that are known to mankind. On the top half of 
this poster, we will see a couple of images. One is a field agent who 
is using mobile detectors mounted on a jeep to determine if a substance 
is radioactive or not. The other shows radiation portal monitors. These 
are right over here. Some of you have been to our border. At the border 
crossings between this country and others, you will see them, and you 
will see them at our ports too.
  The second image is the radiation portal monitor, these tall yellow 
posts that are stationed at the ports of entry and exits that can 
passively scan. They can scan cars, they can scan trucks, and they can 
even scan shipping containers as they pass through between those tall 
yellow posts at our borders.
  The men and women at the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office are 
charged with detecting and reporting unauthorized attempts to import, 
possess, store, develop, or transport nuclear or radiological material. 
They rely heavily on strong partnerships with local, State, Federal, 
and tribal law enforcement to achieve this mission. They act as a force 
multiplier as they equip thousands on the frontlines with the resources 
and with the knowledge they need to protect our communities from 
nuclear and radiological threats.
  One of the individuals who takes on this task every day is a fellow 
named Brian Kuleski. As an operational support program analyst, Brian 
oversees detection operations in eight States and one U.S. territory.
  Brian Kuleski makes sure that first responders have the training to 
coordinate and carry out detection operations, whether at a major event 
or in a sudden emergency. Through regular training, exercises, and 
strategic planning, Brian Kuleski gives our first responders the tools 
they need to protect some of our most vulnerable areas from the threat 
of nuclear materials.
  Before joining the Department of Homeland Security, Brian worked for 
the Florida Department of Transportation as a State police officer. In 
that role he was supporting to detect and track radiological materials 
throughout his State. He conducted radiological and nuclear detection 
operations at over 18 large-scale events, including the 2009 Super 
Bowl, the 2008 World Series, and the 2008 Republican Governors 
Association conference.
  Throughout Brian's career, he has earned the respect of his 
colleagues and is recognized as an authority on radiological and 
nuclear detection. Through his thoughtful leadership and, I am told, a 
little bit of humor along the way, Brian has helped Federal agencies 
and State and local law enforcement work together as one team to 
protect against terrorist attacks.
  To Brian and to his team, we want to say a very big thank you today 
and every day.
  While Brian and his team are hard at work tracking nuclear material 
and stopping it before it enters our borders, others within the 
Domestic Nuclear Detection Office are working to track the sources of 
these materials so they can cut off the pipeline before it ever becomes 
a threat in the United States.
  When Brian or anyone in the Federal Government detects and 
confiscates nuclear materials, they are delivered to the National 
Technical Nuclear Forensic Center at this agency. The experts there use 
advanced technologies to break down and analyze the origins of nuclear 
and radiological materials.
  In the bottom half of these images to my left, you can see some of 
the sophisticated technologies in these two frames right here. We can 
see some of the sophisticated technologies that we need to analyze the 
materials and track their sources. By the way, operating this state-of-
the-art scientific equipment and instruments requires years of training 
and education.
  With the right information, employees of this office can track 
materials to their source, find out who produced those materials, and 
arrest the criminals who buy, sell, or transport them.
  This is an essential part of our efforts to keep nuclear and 
radiological materials away from terrorists whom we know would like to 
use them in an attack against our country.
  One Domestic Nuclear Detection Office employee charged with making 
sure that we are the best in the world at tracing the origins of 
nuclear material is Amalie Zeitoun. Amalie serves as a program analyst 
with the National Technical Nuclear Forensic Center, overseeing nine 
university and National Laboratory initiatives. Amalie is responsible 
for hiring the best and the brightest in the field of nuclear 
forensics.
  Since 2008, Amalie has hired 42 Ph.D.s for our nuclear forensics 
workforce. These individuals work every day to improve our technologies 
and to help us track down the sources of these dangerous materials. Her 
continued work will ensure that we continue to attract and retain some 
of the top scientists in the world.
  Partnering with our detection experts in the field, like Brian and 
his team, the forensics experts hired by Amalie help State and local 
law enforcement track down and bring to justice those who seek to 
traffic nuclear

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material and sell it to criminals and to terrorists.
  Without Amalie's efforts to keep our technology and expertise moving 
in the right direction, detection experts in the field, such as Brian, 
and countless first responders and law enforcement personnel across our 
country would have a lot more material to track and a much harder job 
ensuring the safety of our communities.
  Amalie's colleagues describe her as the ultimate team player. She 
works tirelessly to bring together government agencies in the academic 
community to make sure we are the best in the world at tracking nuclear 
material. She is intently focused on maintaining our abilities and 
reaching the goals set for her program, knowing that failure to reach 
them will make it much more difficult for Brian to achieve his goals. 
As a country, it is to our benefit that many say Amalie rarely takes no 
for an answer.
  Both Brian and Amalie are the ultimate team players. With just 125 
employees, the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office can't be everywhere at 
once. It requires everyone--Federal agencies, State and local law 
enforcement, emergency planners, and even the academic and scientific 
community. Together we can do more with less, continuously improving 
our training and equipment, and staying one giant leap ahead of the bad 
guys who seek to use these materials to harm Americans here at home.
  To Brian, to Amalie, to all of the folks with whom they work at the 
Domestic Nuclear Detection Office and to everyone around the country 
who helps detect and track nuclear and radiological materials, we thank 
each of you. We thank the members of your team, and we thank you for 
coming together to keep the rest of us safe.
  To all of you, we say thanks, and God bless.
  With that, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue). The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. 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. CORNYN. Mr. President, I yield back all our time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All majority time is yielded back.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Jersey.
  Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. President, I yield back all the minority time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has been yielded back.


                Motion to Concur With Amendment No. 4865

  Under the previous order, the question is on agreeing to the motion 
to table the motion to concur with amendment No. 4865.
  The yeas and nays have previously been ordered.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. 
Manchin) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily 
absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 44, nays 54, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 114 Leg.]

                                YEAS--44

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Cruz
     Durbin
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lee
     Markey
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Paul
     Peters
     Reed
     Reid
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--54

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     King
     Kirk
     Lankford
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Perdue
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Vitter
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Manchin
     Warner
       
  The motion was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Let's have everybody stay close to the Chamber because 
the next three votes are going to be 10 minutes each.
  I ask unanimous consent that the votes following this vote we just 
completed be 10 minutes in length.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.


                            Motion to Concur

  Under the previous order, the question is on agreeing to the motion 
to waive all applicable budget provisions for the motion to concur.
  The yeas and nays have previously been ordered.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. 
Manchin) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily 
absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 85, nays 13, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 115 Leg.]

                                YEAS--85

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Franken
     Gardner
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Kaine
     King
     Kirk
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Nelson
     Paul
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Reid
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Vitter
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--13

     Baldwin
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murray
     Perdue
     Sanders
     Tester
     Warren

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Manchin
     Warner
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 85, the nays are 
13.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  Under the previous order, all postcloture time is yielded back.


           Motion to Concur With Amendment No. 4865 Withdrawn

  Under the previous order, the motion to concur with an amendment is 
withdrawn.


                        Vote on Motion to Concur

  The question is on agreeing to the motion to concur in the House 
amendment to S. 2328.
  Mr. THUNE. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. 
Manchin) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily 
absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 30, as follows:

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                      [Rollcall Vote No. 116 Leg.]

                                YEAS--68

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Burr
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Franken
     Gardner
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Kaine
     King
     Kirk
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Murphy
     Nelson
     Paul
     Peters
     Reed
     Reid
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Toomey
     Udall
     Vitter
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--30

     Baldwin
     Booker
     Boozman
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Grassley
     Heller
     Lee
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Perdue
     Portman
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Scott
     Shelby
     Tester
     Tillis
     Warren
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Manchin
     Warner
       
  The motion was agreed to.

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