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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextPROVIDING FOR CONGRESSIONAL DISAPPROVAL UNDER CHAPTER 8 OF TITLE 5,
UNITED STATES CODE, OF THE RULE SUBMITTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF
EDUCATION RELATING TO “REIMAGINING AND IMPROVING STUDENT EDUCATION-
FEDERAL STUDENT LOAN PROGRAM FINAL REGULATIONS”
Mr. MERKLEY. I move to proceed to Calendar No. 432, S.J. Res. 196.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:
Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 432, S.J. Res. 196,
providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of
title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the
Department of Education relating to “Reimagining and
Improving Student Education-Federal Student Loan Program
Final Regulations”.
Vote on Motion
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to proceed.
Mr. MERKLEY. 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 bill clerk called the roll.
Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell).
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) are necessarily absent.
The result was announced—yeas 45, nays 52, as follows:
Rollcall Vote No. 190 Leg.
YEAS—45
Alsobrooks
Baldwin
Blumenthal
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
Kim
King
Klobuchar
Lujan
Markey
Merkley
Murphy
Murray
Ossoff
Padilla
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Sanders
Schatz
Schiff
Schumer
Slotkin
Smith
Van Hollen
Warner
Warnock
Warren
Welch
Whitehouse
Wyden
NAYS—52
Armstrong
Banks
Barrasso
Blackburn
Boozman
Britt
Budd
Capito
Cassidy
Collins
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Curtis
Daines
Ernst
Fischer
Graham
Grassley
Hagerty
Hawley
Hoeven
Husted
Hyde-Smith
Johnson
Justice
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
Lummis
Marshall
McCormick
Moody
Moran
Moreno
Murkowski
Paul
Ricketts
Risch
Rounds
Schmitt
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Sheehy
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Tuberville
Wicker
Young
NOT VOTING—3
Bennet
McConnell
Shaheen
The motion was rejected.