QUORUM CALL; Congressional Record Vol. 165, No. 15
(Senate - January 24, 2019)

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[Pages S548-S549]
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                              QUORUM CALL

  Mr. BLUNT. With that, Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a 
quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll, 
and the following Senators entered the Chamber and answered to their 
names:

                             [Quorum No. 2]

     Blunt
     Cardin
     Coons
     Ernst
     Isakson
     Kaine
     Manchin
     McConnell
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Thune
     Van Hollen
     Whitehouse
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. A quorum is not present.
  The majority leader.


                           Motion to Instruct

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I move to instruct the Sergeant at Arms 
to request the presence of absent Senators, and 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. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), and 
the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Rosen) is 
necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 88, nays 8, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 8 Leg.]

                                YEAS--88

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Harris
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Hyde-Smith
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     McSally
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran

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     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--8

     Alexander
     Booker
     Cotton
     Enzi
     Hoeven
     Kennedy
     Lee
     Toomey

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Inhofe
     Paul
     Risch
     Rosen
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. A quorum is present.
  The majority leader.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I withdraw my motion to proceed to S. 
1.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has that right.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, what is the pending business?

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