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Paul Tonko: I was detained by legislative business. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 98 and ``yea'' on…

On the recordMarch 31, 2022
I was detained by legislative business. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 98 and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 99. Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress Baird (Walorski) Bilirakis (Fleischmann) Bowman (Meng) Cawthorn (Nehls) Comer (Fleischmann) Crist (Wasserman Schultz) Cuellar (Pappas) Curtis (Stewart) DeGette (Blunt Rochester) Espaillat (Correa) Harder (CA) (Gomez) Jayapal (Gomez) Johnson (TX) (Jeffries) Joyce (OH) (Garbarino) Kahele (Mrvan) Krishnamoorthi (Beyer) Lawson (FL) (Wasserman Schultz) Mace (Rice (SC)) Manning (Beyer) McClain (Fitzgerald) Newman (Beyer) Owens (Stewart) Roybal-Allard (Wasserman Schultz) Salazar (Gimenez) Sanchez (Gomez) Scott, David (Jeffries) Sessions (Babin) Sires (Pallone) Soto (Wasserman Schultz) Steel (Obernolte) Strickland (Takano) Suozzi (Beyer) Taylor (Carter (TX)) Thompson (MS) (Evans) Trone (Beyer) Waltz (Mast) Wilson (FL) (Jeffries) ____________________
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Paul Tonko
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Mar 31, 2022

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