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On the recordDecember 15, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The result was announced--yeas 40, nays 54, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 395 Leg.] YEAS--40 Blackburn Boozman Braun Capito Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Barrasso Blunt Burr Cruz Hagerty Tillis The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 40, the nays are 54. The affirmative 60-vote threshold having not been achieved, the motion to concur is not agreed to. The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Order of Procedure
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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