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On the recordMay 12, 2021
I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), are necessarily absent. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 60, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 189 Ex.] YEAS--60 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--38 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--2 Heinrich Leahy The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 60, the nays are 38. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 12, 2021

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