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On the recordMarch 16, 2022
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 82 Ex.] YEAS--63 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--35 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Menendez Shaheen The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). On this vote, the yeas are 63, the nays are 35. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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