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[Pages S5923-S5924]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
UIGHUR INTERVENTION AND GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN UNIFIED RESPONSE ACT OF
2019
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair lays before the Senate the following
message from the House.
The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:
Resolved, That the bill from the Senate (S. 178) entitled
``An Act to condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic
Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, and calling for an end to
arbitrary detention, torture, and harassment of these
communities inside and outside China.'', do pass with an
amendment.
Pending:
McConnell motion to concur in the amendment of the House of
Representatives to the bill, with McConnell Amendment No.
2652, in the nature of a substitute.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays on the
pending motion to concur with amendment No. 2652.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
There appears to be a sufficient second.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
Amendment No. 2673 to Amendment No. 2652
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I have a second-degree amendment to the
motion to concur with amendment No. 2673.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:
The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. McConnell], for Mr. Tillis,
proposes an amendment numbered 2673 to amendment No. 2652.
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the
reading of the amendment be dispensed with.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
Without objection, it is so ordered.
(The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of
Amendments.'')
Motion to Table
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I move to table amendment No. 2673, and
I ask for the yeas and nays.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
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There appears to be a sufficient second.
The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator
from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran),
and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr.
Alexander) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Kansas (Mr.
Moran) would have voted ``nay.''
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris),
the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Montana
(Mr. Tester) are necessarily absent.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote?
The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 47, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 199 Leg.]
YEAS--47
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Booker
Brown
Cantwell
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Coons
Cortez Masto
Cruz
Duckworth
Durbin
Feinstein
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hirono
Jones
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Leahy
Lee
Manchin
Markey
Menendez
Merkley
Murphy
Murray
Paul
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schatz
Schumer
Shaheen
Sinema
Smith
Stabenow
Udall
Van Hollen
Warner
Warren
Whitehouse
Wyden
NAYS--47
Barrasso
Blackburn
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Burr
Capito
Cassidy
Collins
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Daines
Enzi
Ernst
Fischer
Gardner
Graham
Grassley
Hawley
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Johnson
Kennedy
Lankford
Loeffler
McConnell
McSally
Murkowski
Perdue
Portman
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rounds
Sasse
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shelby
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Wicker
Young
NOT VOTING--6
Alexander
Harris
Moran
Rubio
Sanders
Tester
The motion was rejected.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
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