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On the recordJune 7, 2022
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 86, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 215 Ex.] YEAS--86 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--12 Burr Cassidy Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Paul Romney Sullivan Tillis Toomey Young NOT VOTING--2 Feinstein Merkley The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Sinema). On this vote, the yeas are 86, the nays are 12. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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