UIGHUR INTERVENTION AND GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN UNIFIED RESPONSE ACT OF 2019; Congressional Record Vol. 166, No. 178
(Senate - October 19, 2020)

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  UIGHUR INTERVENTION AND GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN UNIFIED RESPONSE ACT OF 
                                  2019

  The Senate proceeded to consider the House message to accompany S. 
178, a bill 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.
  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.
       McConnell Amendment No. 2680 (to Amendment No. 2652), to 
     improve the small business programs.


                            Motion to Table

  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I move to table amendment No. 2680 
and ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Kentucky (Mr. Paul).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) 
and the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cassidy). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 40, nays 57, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 203 Leg.]

                                YEAS--40

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--57

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Loeffler
     McConnell
     McSally
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Warner
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Harris
     Paul
     Sinema
  The motion was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.

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